Re:Best Buy Is Thriving in the Age of Amazon
by metiscus on Thursday July 19, 2018 @12:31PM
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Sometimes Best Buy has exclusive models that have specific software put on there by the manufacturer. You can usually verify if you are getting one of those models by googling the full model number to see if there are other sellers than Best Buy out there.
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Re:Best Buy Is Thriving in the Age of Amazon
by emodendroket on Thursday July 19, 2018 @12:42PM
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Walmart is famous for doing this with all manner of goods (usually their version has some sacrifices to achieve a lower price).
Re:Best Buy Is Thriving in the Age of Amazon
by 3rdAccount on Thursday July 19, 2018 @01:32PM
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Chromebooks from anywhere including Walmart are of course free of any crap.
Re:Best Buy Is Thriving in the Age of Amazon
by emodendroket on Thursday July 19, 2018 @02:39PM
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They probably have slightly different hardware to keep a price edge. But anyway, to anyone on HN I'd think bundled software is pretty much a non-issue; I've always installed Windows fresh and I feel like doing that isn't a big deal if you are technical.
Re:Best Buy Is Thriving in the Age of Amazon
by scarface74 on Thursday July 19, 2018 @03:21PM
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Where do you get a free non OEM install of Windows if you aren’t an MSDN subscriber?
Re:Best Buy Is Thriving in the Age of Amazon
by metiscus on Thursday July 19, 2018 @03:56PM
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If it is Windows 10, you can do so here
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
Otherwise
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows8IS...
Re:Best Buy Is Thriving in the Age of Amazon
by emodendroket on Thursday July 19, 2018 @03:28PM
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Well, I am an MSDN subscriber. But if you aren't, can't you get a "recovery disc" from Microsoft somewhere and then use the serial on the label? I can recall doing something like this in the past.