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What about Vista compared to XPWhat about Vista compared to XPPosted Apr 17, 2009 18:55 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954)In reply to: What about Vista compared to XP by ringerc Parent article: Another Look At Linux Netbook Return Statistics (bMighty.com)
The OEMs want to save money on printing the media by making the customer do it. I don't think the OEMs save money by not pressing the media. For the OEMs in question, price is everything. That's how they get market share. So they pass the savings on to the customer. They know that most customers, perhaps out of ignorance, aren't willing to pay for recovery media, whether in purchase price or in personal time and effort. I don't know the rules and statistics in returns of these things, but I'll bet the various parties have figured out that it's cheaper, to society as a whole, to return a computer to the factory to be remanufactured (reloaded) in the few cases that a customer returns it than for recovery media to be created for every computer sold.
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