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On Your Side: Spill Voids Entire Laptop Warranty HP's policy is not to perform any repairs under warranty for a product that has suffered other damage due to an accident excluded from coverage. |
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The Buying Game: Best and Worst Places to Shop for a PC Almost moment by moment, computers get cheaper, faster, more feature-rich. So why don't they get any easier to buy? Alas, figuring out where to purchase a PC remains a tricky proposition. That's true even if you happen to know exactly what system you want--and only more so if you require some assistance zeroing in on the perfect PC. |
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