"cmsix" <cmsix@storiesonline.org> wrote in news:v8K8h.8860$6t.7777
@newssvr11.news.prodigy.com:

>
> "Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous@example.invalid> wrote in
> message
> news:aiv8h.320912$QZ1.154@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
>> James E. Morrow wrote:
>>
>>> In article <12m39hhgnj1ei9b@corp.supernews.com>,
>>> my@ddress.is.invalid
>>> says...
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>>> Same with Compaq. I bought a laptop and it had a TON of wild
>>>> tangent
>>>> games and such. I almost hate buying a new computer anymore
>>>> because
>>>> of all the crap they put on it. You would think that it should
>>>> fall
>>>> under some kind of antispam law or something. When I buy a
>>>> computer
>>>> I want two things, the computer and the OS. I think someone (Dell,
>>>> sony, HP or some other big player) should sell a computer with
>>>> nothing on it and sell the OS separate. IMHO
>>>
>>> Great Idea. But Microsoft wouldn't allow that. The box and the OS
>>> must be mated for registration purposes. So you really can't buy a
>>> computer without an operating system.
>>
>> Of course you can. The computer I am using was purchased with a
>> blank
>> hard drive, just as I ordered it from the computer store a few miles
>> away. I took it home, partitioned the drive, and installed both my
>> retail copy of Win2K and a copy of Ubuntu. I also could have
>> purchased
>> it with nothing more than bog-standard XP, but I didn't want XP.
>>
>> Depends on where you shop, and your level of experience. Newbies
>> need
>> not apply, I suppose.
>
> With a day's worth of research you can find out how the parts go
> together and what goes with what, after that it's easy. It has to be,
> I've been doing it for years.

Don't forget about chipset incompatability issues... You do know some
chipset's will cause problems with other hardware right? It's not
entirely universal.



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Last updated: November 15th, 2006