1. No installation disks.
2. The warranty can be extended on IBM.com only if you buy the
laptop in the USA. The salesman lied.
When I realized I had no disks, I immediately made a Norton Ghost
image of the whole drive for safekeeping. I know myself, and I knew
that my Windows would go FUBAR sooner or later.
Then I managed to install Suse Linux 10.0 successfully, resizing the
Win partition in the process. Very impressed.
So I Ghosted the whole drive again for safekeeping. This _killed_
the whole setup and made the PC unbootable.
No problem, I thought, I have a Ghost image of the original disk
setup! No joy - the laptop complained about a digital signature not
matching. I also got a nasty look from my wife for wiping out my
laptop after just one day.
Anyway, I reformatted everything and installed my own WinXP + Suse.
To their credit, I applaud IBM for making all the drivers and extra
goodies available and easy to find. The IBM Diagnostic partition is
gone, but I can't imagine having used it anyway.
I paid for that Windows license, and I have nothing to show for it.
Does this count as vaporware?
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