[Skunkworks] Lack of recovery dvd's creator software on laptops with Win7 Pro?

I'm not sure but I think someone on this listed has posted a thread about having gotten a laptop and was missing the option of creating the recovery dvds. Normally vendors provide this software so that you can image you complete HDD. I discovered is that machines running Win7 Pro do not need the vendor recovery software because Win7 Pro has a built in system image facility that does a full image of the entire HDD. Pls do not confuse this with backup or restore, system image is a full image of your HDD. I had an HP Compaq Laptop 610 query about 2 days ago and someone had the same problem. It makes sense that HP would not ship the recovery manager software because Win7pro already does it for you. Hope this helps. :-) Rgds.