[TriLUG] new laptop warranty

Carl Crider c.crider at gmail.com
Thu Aug 26 11:36:48 EDT 2010


I bought a couple of Dells last year. I called a couple of different
warranty people and verified that loading Linux would not void any
hardware warranties. I got this in writing as well. No issues at all.



On 8/26/10, Dave Moody <davethebald at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Dell has not been too bad on hardware issues for me.  I have an MPS 1330
> with Ubuntu.
>
> Dave
>
> --- On Thu, 8/26/10, Michael Hrivnak <mhrivnak at hrivnak.org> wrote:
>
> From: Michael Hrivnak <mhrivnak at hrivnak.org>
> Subject: [TriLUG] new laptop warranty
> To: trilug at trilug.org
> Date: Thursday, August 26, 2010, 10:47 AM
>
> We are currently shopping for a basic laptop, and naturally we want to
> put linux on it.  From a warranty standpoint, are there any
> manufacturers that are particularly agreeable to fixing hardware
> issues under warranty when linux is involved?  Any manufacturers to
> avoid?
>
> I haven't had much experience with warranty claims after changing the
> OS in a long time.  But I recall that around 2001, Dell tried real
> hard to not replace my clearly-broken hard drive because I'd replaced
> Win 98 SE with 2000.
>
> Have any experience to share?
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
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