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Story: PC makers find ways to extend XP's life

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Only 1 SATA !

Are you serious thats crazy, I take it there is more than one IDE otherwise that motherboard is serious rubbish. Probably another one of Dells cost cutting procedures. This is my take on how that desicion came about.

MB Supplier: "How many SATA connectors would you like"
Dell: "We'll just have the one SATA if its cheaper"
MB S: "Are you sure what if your customers want to upgrade"
Dell: "We'll cross that bridge when we come to it, anyway it will probbably break in a year and the spec it has now should be addequate until then.

With the recovery partition on the HDD and no Media.

It is good from a Techie point of view dealing with a customer who has usually lost the disks. But bad with HDD failure. In an ideal world we'd all take an Image of our new machines, but who does that seriosly nobody does.

Dell XP recovery disks how ever are Generic it is just the driver disks that are model specific. So if you have an old Dell recovery disk you should be able to use that it will know through the hardware that it is a Dell and wont bother you for a Product Key. Or if you know someone who has a Recovery disc Burn a copy.

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