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"Indeed, we enthusiastically buy their hardware and port our systems to it."

"Indeed, we enthusiastically buy their hardware and port our systems to it."

Posted Aug 30, 2012 6:15 UTC (Thu) by HybridAU (subscriber, #85157)
In reply to: "Indeed, we enthusiastically buy their hardware and port our systems to it." by rillian
Parent article: Look and feel lawsuits, the second time around

System76 is a good alternative, even if Ubuntu is not your cup of tea at least it's FLOSS.

It's not a lot of help now but when I was buying my X220 they had an offer where you could buy a laptop with no OS, http://shop.lenovo.com/us/landing_pages/promos/thinkpad/t... it's not available now but I think it will be back it seems to come and go from time to time.

That said I ended up getting the one with Windows because for the exact same spec the Windows one was $200(US) cheaper. I almost bought it any way just to send a message that there is demand for no OS laptops. But in the end I decided that paying >20% more to *not* get something was not worth it.


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