netbook question

Dan Ritter dsr-mzpnVDyJpH4k7aNtvndDlA at public.gmane.org
Wed Mar 3 11:51:28 EST 2010


On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 10:40:14AM -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> >   
> Apparently the person who asked me was specifically told by a sales
> person at Best Buy that the netbook has a special version of Windows 7
> and could not be set up for dual boot. My experience tells me that the
> salesman has a case of rectocranial inversion. I think the only case
> where a computer could not dual boot would be if there were special code
> in the BIOS, and as I mentioned in a prior post, I have not seen that in
> a PC class machine since Windows 98 days.

I'm sure this is familiar to you, but it bears repeating:

Q: What's the difference between a used car dealer and a
computer salesman?

A: The car dealer knows when he's lying... 
   ...and knows how to use the product he's selling.

-dsr-

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