"Michael Gerbasio" <mwgerbasio********.com> wrote in message
news:OXcMAFeZEHA.2844@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> 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.

As it rightfully should. You realize that decision automatically EXCLUDES
TabletPCs as none come with a full XP install CD. That's due to MS and not
the OEMs.