RE: [OT] Anyone heard of OEM-CD before?

["Hawes,Timothy Edward (GEG)" <haweste@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tawn, Jonathan  Sent: 17 March 2004 10:37
>
> No, not heard of them before,
>
> IIRC, you can only ship OEM (original equipment manufacture -
> I think..)
> software if you're a system builder or it has to acompany some
> hardware...don't think its 'ok' to sell it on its own...
>
> Good prices though!!
>
> JT

Good prices indeed !

Watch out though. I don't know quite what's being sold here but if, for
e.g. you try to install your Dell OEM version of XP onto a different brand
of machine, it won't. Full stop. The OEM CD looks for specific manufacturer
info (presumably in the bios) and won't proceed if it doesn't find it.

YMMV, but that was my experience.

Cheers,

Tim.

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