> How are you having Dell ship a brand new laptop Have the vendor ship your image? Or provide your own bootstrap. Probably something with netboots as well...

> How are you having Dell ship a brand new laptop Have the vendor ship your image? Or provide your own bootstrap. Probably something with netboots as well... If your point is there is a heavy vendor presence, yeah, sure. But yes, it is all scriptable. Someone has to provision the device, whether that's you or Dell, that's your choice as the customer, not some inherent superiority of one system over another.