On Tuesday 04 December 2007 07:17:13 Xiaofan Chen wrote:
> > Just stop that sentence at the word Windows, and you'll have the right
> > idea.  :-)
>
> It would be nice that you can build your own laptops but it is not easy.
> Building a desktop is easy now. Actually here in Singapore, you can

I think that there has been some progress in the whitebook laptop market. =

Compal has been making it's laptops available more widely. I believe that t=
he =

only thing that isn't customisable is the graphics. You can stick in =

everything else yourself.

I can't remember the model number but Asus has one that has swappable =

graphics, which uses an MXM interface. But this interface doesn't seem to b=
e =

widely supported.

In the end, I got a HP (with a =A3100 cashback), and tried my best to retur=
n the =

Vista that it came with. Vista refuses to respond to anything unless you =

agree to the EULA. I didn't, and so, I had to hard reset the machine. I =

couldn't disagree with the EULA as there wasn't a button allowing me to do =

so!

I got the run-around from both HP and Microsoft customer service. Each tell=
ing =

me that I should return it to the other. In the end, HP sent me a new OEM =

copy of XP and closed the case.

http://sybreon.blogspot.com/2007/08/my-windows-refund-saga.html

Cheers.

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with metta,
Shawn Tan

Aeste Works (M) Sdn Bhd - Engineering Elegance
http://www.aeste.net

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