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That makes absolutely no sense from a design standpoint.
Pretty much every utility disc I use runs off those type of live cd setups and this is retarded to me.
Why would a machine be made that couldn't function with them?
This is actually the first I'm ever hearing of someone having something like that.
The whole problem here is why was this an issue in the first place?
I'm kind of ticked at sony over this, only for putting out something that would function this way in the first place, as it just makes no sense.
Must be from the
- collect underpants
- ....
- profit
school of computer design and implementation.
You are absolutely right David. It makes no sense - epecially since the other Sony systems do not seem to have this problem. I have been in Computers since over 50 years but I have never seen a thing like that. Who would have thought to first ask whether live CDs work. That is like asking whether a car will have a steering wheel before you buy it.
WHS,
You luck with Sony is my luck with electronics.
You need to take your complaint to a much higher level.
THW
I still fail to see how Sony has any culpability in it not being able to run a linux live cd. It functions within it's design specs and is designed to run windows based software. Sony has no obligation to make sure it runs non windows based software.
As for not exchanging it that seems like BS. Unless you've had the laptop for way too long from purchase.
From what I'm understanding it will run no boot device that isn't windows.
I actually chased this down a little bit.
This machine is useless, even as a tech I wouldn't want to have to work on it because it lacks the basic hardware code support to use general utilities. Forget about any partitioning suite like acronis too.
No if this was done for a reason I can't think of it. They actually strayed here to I doubt it saved them any money in production or anything. The foundation is already in use on all their other systems.
This is bad mojo. I certainly hope it's not something manufacturers are tinkering around with. It will make third party support very difficult and nearly impossible in many situations.
This goes beyond a minor inconvenience it basically means the system can only ever be serviced by sony with their software for it, and they're just going to give you what WHS got.
This is really something no one should have been expected to ask about either. I can't ever recall needing to ask 'will this run a live cd' because this is MAC behavior. Not PC behavior.