Topic awaiting preservation: YAY! Got a Vaio!

This is my first Asylum post (actually my first anything) post from my new laptop! Its a Sony Vaio VGN-S260. I love it! I'm toying with the idea of putting gentoo on it and dual booting. My only problem is they didn't include a Windows CD! It came preinstalled with Home edition and I have a product key stuck to the bottom of the machine. They also included a recovery program that backsup the whole HD on 6 CDs

congrats

When i got my seanote a coupla years ago I didn't get a windows cd, but a seanix cd with their distribution of windows.. set up for the notebook and with the seanix logo in the install screens... maybe you got a sony disk with windows in there somewhere?

I hate when they give you a recovery cd but not a windows cd... I mean you pay for a copy of windows when you buy the computer, so it's like they're cheating you out of your money

::had to vent::


Some people say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one (John Lennon)

I didn't even get a recovery CD, just a program to burn my own recovery CD! Can I use the key on another persons home xp disk?

well, the way I see it (although micro$oft or the authorities might see it a little differently) you're entitled to your own copy of a windows cd.

I'm pretty sure your key will work with another cd, I mean if there are ways of getting illegal copies of the software to work without a hitch then a legal key on a real cd should be no exception.

personally, I'd have a talk with someone over at Sony about getting a windows cd.


Some people say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one (John Lennon)

Depends on how much they charged you for the copy of WIndows I X I... could very well be that all you paid for was a license under the auspices of *their* copy of Windows.


Justice 4 Pat Richard

Well, I quite like it with the recovery CD. I formatted not so long ago and....No need for re-activation, new full subscription to Norton Anti-virus updates (effectively) and so on...

WRayal

Go to kimber-ja.demon.co.uk and click on the link to the raytracer!

dual... boot?

Just go with Gentoo.

Is that Vaio any good? What sort of specs and performance are you getting out of it?

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -- Arthur C. Clarke
"Any sufficiently arcane magic is indistinguishable from technology." -- P. David Lebling

har! averatec to Sony Vaio, price was apparently not a concern

those are sexy looking little units! I'm a Vaio fan as well, let's have some pics, they so pretty, make Macs look plain.

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JKMabry said:

har! averatec to Sony Vaio, price was apparently not a concern

those are sexy looking little units! I'm a Vaio fan as well, let's have some pics, they so pretty, make Macs look plain.

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Hehe, well I got a raise, and some early xmas money. =) I'll get some pics up probably after turkey day.