IBM has been doing this for a while. I bought a Thinkpad A31p then a X31
neither shipped with recovery CDs, there was a recovery partition on the
hard drive. IBM will mail them to you at no cost, but you need to call and
that doesn't usually happen until a drive failure ;)

For my next notebook/tablet, getting the full install CDs is going to weight
heavily in my decision. With the Thinkpads, the recovery CDs are helpful,
but if you set up multiple partitions, it all gets erased; I rarely use one
partition.

Regards-Michael G.



"JDTHREE [MVP]" <john@removeforspam.engagenet.com> wrote in message
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> Today one of my employees got his new laptop - a Sony Vaio.
>
> Imagine my surprise when not only didn't it come with a disc for XP
> Pro (expected that) but it didn't even come with a recovery disc! And
> it's not an "imaged" one that you run from the drive...
>
> When you boot it up, the first thing it tells you is that you have to
> create your rescue disc. It informs you that you need 10 (yes, TEN)
> CD's and each will take approximately 15 minutes to create.
>
> So up to 2.5 hours you have to spend making your own recovery discs
> when you get your new laptop...
>
> What an insult.
>
> John
>