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No they're not, they are actually ordered from Packard Bell direct. Substantially cheaper than the £100+ for OS CD and not to mention CDs for all the bundled software.

In other news, the price of DSG's OEM PC recovery CDs (That's Advent, EiSystems, Patriot etc) has gone up from £5 to £30 this week - which really does take the **** IMO. That's other news.

But £40 is pretty standard charge, HP/Compaq and other mfrs charge similar amounts.