First off, I work for Echostar. The main fact in this lawsuit is that Viacom is trying to raise the rates by 40%. That is 4 times the rate of inflation.
I am an owner of a Sony Vaio GRX570. What he said about them encoding the BIOS is correct, they do encode it, with what info I don't know. But as to what he said about installing other operating systems is wrong. I successfully installed WinXP Pro then a dual boot of Win2K, and Slackware 8.1.
I was able to get the drivers for the 2K install from their website . The drivers I got from there were made for the GRX5xxK models. It seems to be the same model as the GRX5xx and GRX5xxP, but with a different BIOS chip.
Also on their support site, particularly the XP version of the GRX they give another place to get additional information on 2K drivers and how to do a clean install of 2K. How is that for OS support?
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First off, I work for Echostar. The main fact in this lawsuit is that Viacom is trying to raise the rates by 40%. That is 4 times the rate of inflation.
Here is who will win.
I am an owner of a Sony Vaio GRX570. What he said about them encoding the BIOS is correct, they do encode it, with what info I don't know. But as to what he said about installing other operating systems is wrong. I successfully installed WinXP Pro then a dual boot of Win2K, and Slackware 8.1. I was able to get the drivers for the 2K install from their website . The drivers I got from there were made for the GRX5xxK models. It seems to be the same model as the GRX5xx and GRX5xxP, but with a different BIOS chip.
Also on their support site, particularly the XP version of the GRX they give another place to get additional information on 2K drivers and how to do a clean install of 2K. How is that for OS support?