[geeks] Laptops taken out of the U.S.

[Mike Meredith]

On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 01:48:00 -0400, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> On Jul 3, 2007, at 1:10 AM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
> >
> > First of all, the only brand that you can buy and be 100% sure that
> > it will be fixed when you get to France is APPLE. WHile you are at
> > it buy the extended AppleCare warranty. As somone else said, it's a
> > computer, not a lifestyle. While I like MacOS, if your wife does
> > not, the new ones run Windows perfectly well. They can be set up to
> > boot directly into Windows and run only Windows, if that's what she
> > wants.
> >
> I am pretty sure that Toshiba would have a similar policy.

And Acer. It's certainly worth checking but I'd imagine most laptop
manufacturers at least have an option for an international warranty.
It's not as if travel isn't what laptops are designed for!


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