At a price of approximately 43,000 pesos (~770 dollars) that seems to be a good buy. But I then found out that the unit does not come with a Windows XP operating system. You have to buy that separately which is an additional 5000 pesos.
Personally, I really don't get the idea of why Philippine computer resellers here are selling such laptops without an operating system included. They want to show the price is low but without an OS.
Come on people. Who are the marketing people behind this? You want to give a false belief that it is cheap?
And the other wierd thing is, my brother had to download the HP drivers needed specifically for this unit. Wow and it should have been bundled at least.
I dont know who to blame here but come on laptop companies, what are you doing? By the way, HP is not the only one doing it. IBM also with their Thinkpad R50e.
In the end, the end user gets cheated away with this deal.
This is a welcomed change actually! I'd rather not pay for the useless Microsoft tax when I can get Linux for free.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I do agree that resellers should state that the notebook comes with no operating system.
Good point. Not everyone now usually want to place windows OS on it. However, the laptop specific drivers should have been included not downloaded since you cant use it until you install the drivers.
ReplyDeleteIt seems it was simply done as removing the included CD bundle without repackaging the driver contents.
Good point. Not everyone now usually want to place windows OS on it. However, the laptop specific drivers should have been included not downloaded since you cant use it until you install the drivers.
ReplyDeleteIt seems it was simply done as removing the included CD bundle without repackaging the driver contents.
it seems that these may either have been smuggled in, repacked, bought straight out of the factory (it was just maybe fortunate enough to already have the logos on the case to begin with) or simply assembled locally. The last option would logically be a reason for such companies to not include a cd, simply because they didn't make it!
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