> Really? I thought that's how all the real companies do it.

Real companies can't replace 80000 PCs overnight, and don't buy 80000 PCs 
that meet the highest spec needed by any one person.  Of course eg 40000 of 
those might be all the same, in which case they obviously just drive-image 
when they install, but there are enough "rogues" out there that mean they 
use a custom install and not the standard installation media.

> Really? Interesting. As far as I can tell, you can make a file that 
> presses the buttons and types in the information automatically instead of 
> you having to do it by hand, but that's about it. And since the install 
> process doesn't let you configure much, that doesn't get you very far. 
> (Also, some of these options apparently don't work. E.g., setting the 
> administrator password always fails.)

Here is just one example that I have used before:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NLite

I don't think it's that hard to do, certainly a large IT department can 
manage it.

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