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

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Sun, Sep 29, 2002 at 02:05:36PM -0600, svq wrote:
>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?

IBM is fairly good about having bootable floppies for their diagnostic
tools.  However, you probably do have to have DOS to extract them onto
floppies.  Once you have the discs, you can then just run the diagnostics
programs and report what you find to IBM.

Another benefit of IBM for those of us local is that the parts come form
Boulder.  I've called at like 5pm in the evening had replacement parts
arrive early the next morning...  I really like IBMs hardware support.

Sean
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