Re: FN-FORUM: help

date posted 6th February 2008 09:47



Gary Short wrote:
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>> From: Ben Moxon [EMAIL REMOVED]
>> Sent: 05 February 2008 16:44
>> To: "FN-FORUM / [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED]
>> Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: help
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>> Probably means it's ok for a Laptop, but anyone who upgrades or services
>> their own Desktop risks being stung by it.
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> There's no difference between a laptop or a desktop. You walk into PC World, you come out with a laptop or desktop, for much cheapness, and it comes with a disk (or the means to create one) which allows you to fully re-install the OS. I know 'cos I always to it to get rid of all the pre-installed trail-ware.
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No, there is. The difference being that it's much easier to upgrade
major parts of the hardware on a desktop and that if you do an OEM
version of the OS won't re-install because it's bound to a single
hardware configuration, which is one reason they can afford to sell it
so cheap- my current licenced copy of XP has got me through two
motherboards and processors and numerous other changes of setup. My OEM
installation died with my original motherboard.