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> NewEgg has to hire guys who sit there for hours installing Windows from the non-existent install disks (they don't include those anymore ... you gotta download them) so that they can recoup their losses? It would cost them more than the laptop is worth.

Do you know what an answer file is? They PXE boot it and walk away. There's no more oversight involved. We're deploying hundreds of new tablets and laptops at my work and I've been tasked with imaging every single one of them. The extent of my involvement is me pressing F12 during the POST. It's not as much work as you may think.



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