At least in IBM's favor you said they'll ship them for free. Sony
gives you a nice link to their website where you can BUY them if you
want to get the factory pressed ones...

John

On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 14:19:20 -0400, "Michael Gerbasio"
<mwgerbasio********.com> wrote:

>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
>news:0mdte0htq6ftdm2edqd8mmr4bb6vsiv7r3@4ax.com.. .
>> 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
>>
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