Hi all
I am about to by some PCs and am looking at both Dell and a local
vendor.
The local vendor told me yesterday that Dell are making machines so that
they cannot easily be upgraded.
They said that Dell have an agreement with Microsoft and that they write
'specifically to the chip' so that other software (eg an upgraded
operating system, won't work) - also that the drivers are the same way,
implying that even if the OS is successfully changed the drivers would
not work and are not available.
This has not been my previous experience but I guess it could be true.
Equally it could be BS from a vendor wanting the work (quite a common
thing in business in BC it seems).
They also told me that the support dept for Dell are now in India and
that the support advice usually just involves suggesting using the
rescue disk which is tailored to the original, un-tinkered with
configuration thus creating problems if any changes have been made.
I am doubting their word on this - does anyone know if these things are
true?
Cheers
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