[Techtalk] Windows-free laptop in Australia

[Karen Locke]

Don't know if they still do it, but I remember an announcement last year that 
Dell will sell machines with a cheap, bare-bones (non-Microsoft) OS 
installed.  There's no Microsoft tax, but it's enough to test & verify 
working.   The customer is expected to replace it with OS of choice (i.e., 
linux).

Hub & I have both had good luck with Dell laptops.  I run SuSE linux 8.0.

Karen

On Thursday 08 January 2004 08:56, Tracey Clark wrote:
> And it was said by Carlo Hamalainen-->
>
> > Does anyone know if it is possible to buy new laptops in Australia
> > without XP? It seems that all brand name laptops (Acer, Ibm, etc) force
> > you to pay the MS tax, as some people would say.
>
> In addition to looking at "bare bones" (no OS installed) or build it
> yourself laptops, another option is a laptop with Linux preinstalled. A
> friend of mine has one of these:
> http://www.linuxcertified.com/linux_laptops.html
>
> The one drawback to LinuxCertified laptops is that their tech support is
> less than optimal if you don't keep their pre-installed version of Linux
> that came with the laptop.

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Karen Locke
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