Dell comes through for me!
Well, what a surprise it was today when the FedEx guy knocked on the door and handed me a box with the Dell logo on it. That was an extremely fast two to three day shipping time. Guess I complained enough to get them to ship it next day air. Sure was nice of them, though I had already accepted that I may not get it until next week some time. Of course, had they cared enough and did this on the first call, I would have had the drive two days ago. It is interesting that the machine came with a Hitachi drive but they shipped Seagate. Not that I am complaining, I prefer Seagate over the Hitachi any day.
What was really nice to see is that they actually listened when I asked them to ship a blank drive, since I would have needed to wipe it anyway to get rid of the crap they add. What was even more of a surprise then getting the drive is the restore disk that came with the machine is really nothing more then a Windows Vista install disk. This means I can partition the drive in two so I can run a dual boot with Linux and only have to boot into Windows when I need to run a Windows specific program. I guess I cannot complain about Dell any more, they do understand the customer, just wish it did not have to take three phone calls and an online chat to get a hard drive shipped.
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Rather interesting. Has few times re-read for this purpose to remember. Thanks for interesting article.