war story: my new off-the-shelf desktop computer

Tue Oct 15 18:40:37 UTC 2013

On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 12:03:31PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 12:37:38AM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> > Summary: Lennart is laughing at me for buying an HP desktop.  But my last 
> > one worked out quite well.  I still hope that this one will.
> 
> Well since you bring it up, yes I am.  Especially an HP consumer product.
> Well not really laughing, more just shaking my head at bad judgement.
> 
> Remember if it ever breaks, they almost certainly won't do warranty work
> unless it still has Windows 8 installed.  Hopefully that will never be an issue.

One easy way is to extract the original harddisk (for safe keeping), and
install your own.  If you're having problem, then swap it back and call
tech support.
-- 
William
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