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Old 8th December 2008, 07:48 PM   #19 (permalink)
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Actually, I think the trend is that they won't give you any physical CDs or DVDs anymore. They'll either have a recovery partition on the hard drive (which I think is risky - what happens if the hard drive gets ruined?) ...
Yep, that's really silly, unless you ...

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... or they'll give you the software already on the drive to burn your own recovery DVDs.
... can burn it on a DVD at least to make your own.

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This was probably done to save money on physical disks.
It's not like these things cost much, but yeah...

Quite possible, the only PC I ever bought with a preinstalled OS was a notebook.

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