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On 09/06/13 15:44, Simon Robert
-Cottage wrote:
On 09/06/13 12:13, Simon Avery wrote:
My palms are itching a bit at the phrase
"turned up to install the internet", but apart from that, great
to hear. Also enlightening after reading from many manufacturers
that "We only ship computers pre-installed with Windows",
including three of the four you mention there.
OK, sorry - turned up to drill a hole in the basement, run a cable
up 4 floors, plug in a router and connect to the cable in the
street.... 35mbs as opposed to 8 at home! And all for £12.50 a
month
The linux installs may have been a Technopolis initiative as all
the linux laptops had a Technopolis screensaver, while the windows
8 ones had that retro futuristic water tower/UFO traffic control
centre thing. But I guess they're not buying in Windows 8 machines
and then wiping the OS, so at the least they're acquiring OSless
laptops I suppose.
S
Believe it or not, I think that's supposed to be the CN Tower in
Toronto:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CN_Tower
No idea why they chose it to be the default win8 lock screen though.
Regards
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