From: lukas.mariman@REMOVEdommel.be   
      
   "Alric Knebel"  schreef in bericht   
   news:QZidndGC5sJg1JbVnZ2dnUVZ_vSdnZ2d@giganews.com...   
   > Lukas Mariman wrote:   
   >   
   >> "Lukas Mariman"  schreef in bericht   
   >> news:670losF2ma9dnU1@mid.individual.net...   
   >>   
   >>> Greeting, carbon units!   
   >>>   
   >>> I just went crazy (again) and got me a new PC.   
   >>>   
   >>> After years of upgrading my existing box piece by piece every so often,   
   >>> I wanted to take the other route and got me a brand PC.   
   >>>   
   >>> I bought an Acer Aspire M3610, which has an Intel Core 2 Quad processor,   
   >>> and comes with Vista Home Premium (and some assorted software included)   
   >>> preloaded.   
   >>>   
   >>> Naturally, there don't seem to be any physical copies of Vista or   
   >>> anything else that was installed  - instead there's some bare-bones   
   >>> documentation that doesn't really help at all, and a few blank   
   >>> "recovery" DVDs.   
   >>>   
   >>> Still figuring out how I am supposed to make a backup of Vista. :-/   
   >>>   
   >>> Anyway, just sharing this touching stuff with you dudes/dudettes. If any   
   >>> of you have Acer stuff as well, I'd love to read what you think of it.   
   >>> Any experiences, horror stories etc. :-)   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> BTW, I'd like to formally give Hewlett-Packard the middle finger for not   
   >> bothering to write any Vista compatible drivers for my existing Printer   
   >> (Photosmart 7660) and scanner (Scanjet 3500c). Sure, they're not the   
   >> latest and greatest, but they're not exactly ancient technology either!   
   >>   
   >> How much time and effort is it for a high-profile technology   
   >> multinational to have someone write some drivers for some of their own   
   >> products?   
   >>   
   >> I am NOT amused. :-(   
   >   
   > That's an interesting complaint.  When it comes time for me to buy a new   
   > computer (which will be before the year's out), I'm going to make it an   
   > HP.  The reason is that they have excellent support.  Whenever I wanted to   
   > make a change to my computer, I'd get online for the online support chat,   
   > and I'd get what I needed to know in a live chat.  Whenever I had hardware   
   > or software malfunctions I couldn't solve, I'd go online again. They   
   > provide this for their customers long after the warranty has expired.  If   
   > you CALL them for support after the warranty has expired, you have to pay   
   > a hefty sum.  The online chat is free, and they've never failed to provide   
   > a solution.   
      
   I see. Well, I'm not asking for much; just some working drivers would be   
   nice.   
      
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