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Re:China, Addicted to Bootleg Software, Reels from Ransomwar... by forumuid on Monday May 15, 2017 @11:04PM (#14347084)
His experience is very shocking, he can not buy a HP or DELL computer with a legal copy of windows installed on it in GUANGZHOU.
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Re:China, Addicted to Bootleg Software, Reels from Ransomwar... by Apfel on Tuesday May 16, 2017 @04:50AM (#14348247)
Actually, the laptops I tried out were almost all Dell + Lenovo (I wanted a thinkpad or XPS). I think, as another commenter said, they were probably Linux + FreeDOS systems originally.

What the store owners would do is use Norton Ghost to put whatever (illegal) OS I wanted on there.

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