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Originally Posted by homealone
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Originally Posted by Strzelecki
Advent machines are good builds, oem MSI boards usually, most of them are made by Medion now. I'm sure nffc and I can help with any issues anyone has <much snippage>
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I've had an Advent machine from Currys & it was a bog standard build, easily upgraded, and it even came with a full set of cds - a while ago, now, though  |
Which model was it? A lot of the Advent PCs even the really old ME PCs (surprisingly, a lot of which are still under Coverplan) come with Ghost/Image based recovery CDs, only really the following come with (rebadged) OS CDs:
- Fujitsu Siemens PCs (DT/LT)
- Compaq laptops
plus a couple I've probably forgotten.
(Other recoveries are much easier to run over the phone)
A lot of the PCs are shipping with hard disk recoveries, this is not a problem unless the HD changes outside of warranty or unless you're a "tweaker". The most popular ones are the PC Angel (used in Advent, other DSG machines, also HP (all) and Compaq (DT/LT) PCs - PB use a variation on this, other than that, it's very rare to buy a PC with a genuine (or rebadged) OS CD now.