Re: GLUG: Notebooks

[Murray Peterson <mapeters@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wayne, Everyone,

Well, 'nuke it and take it in with a fresh windows installation.

Seriously though I fail to see how a company could possibly enforce
something like this unless it was noted before you purchased the laptop.

The Linux operating system now has (and continually gains) recognition and
I would guess that any Sony lawyer would be hard pressed to
successfully define using Linux as beyond the scope of normal operation
for the hardware.


> 2. Sony won't honour hardware warranties with Linux on the machine. I was
> told this weekend when the keyboard failed (keyboard on the 'book had keys
> that didn't work, external keyboard worked fine - notebook 14 days old at
> this time) that because I had loaded Linux on the machine, they could not
> honour the warranty. 


> So I'm in the market for a new notebook I guess. :-(
You can always throw it my way :)

No offence, but have I just fallen for an April fools joke?
:)


   -Murray

Murray Peterson 
Durban, South Africa.		
http://is.und.ac.za/~mapeters