[NTLUG:Discuss] Win4Lin, USB Serial, Packard Bell, Sony, Mandrake, Wine, Best Buy, VmWare

[Rev. wRy]

On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 17:18, Bug Hunter wrote:
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>   I bought a Sony.  I wanted windows 2000 on it.  (They sell that as an
> option.)  Sony is BIG.  Too BIG.  After multiple phone calls, I gave up,
> and restored Windows XP from their recovery disk set.  Windows 2000 had
> ruined XP.  Somewhere in the middle of the recovery process, the machine
> locked for 1 1/2 hours, so I took it back to Best Buy after having it 3
> days.  Sony is now off my list.  Their people answer with canned answers,
> and the hardware was flaky.

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I recently went through the same thing with Sony re: XP vs. Win2K. 
Official answer was if you put any OS other than what we sell, you're on
your own.  I *did* manage to track down drivers for 99% of the stuff
that I was missing, and even managed to get most of the software that
installed with it working.

Thanks for letting me know I wasn't alone in experiencing miserable
support from sony.  Shame, as I really like the vaio line.

Ry
(obOnTopic:  Supposedly, the sonys run linux rather well, but I've yet
to secure one to play with.  *must acquire*)
-- 
> chemwonk <chemwonk> wrote:
>ObMessy: Explaining the hotel charge for "12 year old virgin" to the
>accountants at the home office.
 
 Bill it as "laptop maintenance".
- Tina Marie