good news for dell buyers. I got a good deal on my dell laptop, but can only imagine the money I could of saved without having it come with windows XP. The second my dell arrived in the mail, I formatted it. Since dell wanted to charge me $10 for a winXP backup disc (since the OS was pre-loaded), I couldent even install it. So 10 seconds after I got my brande new dell, I formatted it and did a quick auto XP install from a pirate copy DVD I had. What a shame. I had to pay for that software. I would of liked to save mroe money with a free linux pre-install.
Same exact thing happened to my friend. It's a shame they no longer include install discs. If you have a HP you can call customer service and bash them till they send you a disc.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
mike @ Mar 29th 2007 1:29AM
good news for dell buyers. I got a good deal on my dell laptop, but can only imagine the money I could of saved without having it come with windows XP. The second my dell arrived in the mail, I formatted it. Since dell wanted to charge me $10 for a winXP backup disc (since the OS was pre-loaded), I couldent even install it. So 10 seconds after I got my brande new dell, I formatted it and did a quick auto XP install from a pirate copy DVD I had. What a shame. I had to pay for that software. I would of liked to save mroe money with a free linux pre-install.
BatteryAcid @ Mar 30th 2007 4:41PM
Same exact thing happened to my friend. It's a shame they no longer include install discs. If you have a HP you can call customer service and bash them till they send you a disc.