[lug] The tide's turning perhaps... :-)

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"D. Stimits" wrote:

> Many places won't honor their warranty if the o/s is not installed from
> their disks. Of course the owner could probably re-install windows from
> the store disks if returning it. It is funny that many of these
> retailers will not even honor the warranty if another version of windows
> is installed...even the same type of windows installed from a CD not of
> their own can remove all service aid in the warranty.
>
> D. Stimits, stimits AT attbi.com
>

So if I were to buy a new laptop, it would be useless to buy the extended
warrenty if I were planning to install Linux as soon as I got it?

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