Niall O Broin wrote:
> >
> > I went into PC World some time ago and was dead set on buy a 1 GHZ athy
> > which at the time was bleeding edge. In any case the dude wouldn't sell me
> > the machine, citing the fact that he couldn't find the 'driver disk' and it
> > was illegal to sell the PC without supplying me with the drivers.
Most likley by "drivers disk", he was refering to the Windows OEM CD, and is
this respect he correct, if Windows is installed on the machine (and the factory
would have pre-installed it) then he cannot sell it to you with out the licence,
unless they remove the boot track.
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