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Originally Posted by mithrandir
I won't even consider a laptop that does not have restore media. The closest I'd go to breaking that would be if it was supplied as one or more ISOs, and the laptop had the right burner.
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Well, we're going to run out of choices pretty soon then Andrew -
especially in netbooks if you're ever after one. Like you, I prefer media, but manufacturers are looking for ways to maximise their profit, and to bring the consumer price down - which is why we can go down to JB HiFi or wherever these days and buy a pretty decent netbook for somewhere around $450. It's perfectly legitimate for them to do this, whether we would like media or not. Most full-sized laptops will probably continue to offer media, but netbooks that don't come fitted with a DVD drive (and that's nearly, if not, all of them) will insist on you connecting your own drive and burning your own media if you really reckon it's important to you. I wonder how many do. I personally have not one single issue with this - at $500 they're pretty-well a throw-away item anyway. Manufacturers will continue their push to make the once-venerable and mystical laptop a blister-pack item that you'd find in aisle four. Time to get used to it mebbe? I connected a knock-around DVD burner to my Asus and had an image of it in minutes - really, no big deal.