<div dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.dell.com/uk/business/p/xps-13-linux/pd">http://www.dell.com/uk/business/p/xps-13-linux/pd</a> hefty price tag though.<br><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 6:22 AM, Thomas Edward Groves <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:teg451013@freeuk.com" target="_blank">teg451013@freeuk.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div><font face="Arial">It's certainly possible to disable UEFI on a
Acer Aspire V5, Model ZHL</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">because I bought one from Argos for 250£ and then
got Marsh Computers</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">to rip out the UEFI protection. </font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">(After W8 persuaded me that Microsoft</font><font face="Arial"> still hates its customers.)</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">It's currently running Slackware 14 adequately
well.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">How they did the deed I do not know.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">Apparently the first hurdle was getting at the
BIOS</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">after which the appropriate setting was changed to
Legacy.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">After that it was all down to fdisk and
stuff.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">Tom</font></div>
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<a href="mailto:jdkaye@riseup.net" title="jdkaye@riseup.net" target="_blank">Jonathan Kaye</a>
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<div style="FONT:10pt arial"><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:kent@mailman.lug.org.uk" title="kent@mailman.lug.org.uk" target="_blank">Kent Linux
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<div style="FONT:10pt arial"><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, July 15, 2014 5:22
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<div style="FONT:10pt arial"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Klug-general] buying a
laptop without windows</div>
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<div>Roger Gammans wrote il 14/07/14 19:24:<br clear="all"></div>
<blockquote type="cite">There are
a couple:-<br><br>( I've not used any yet - reports welcome )<br><br><a href="http://Pcspecialist.co" target="_blank">Pcspecialist.co</a>.UK<br></blockquote>Pcspecialist is
definitely out of my price range. I was hoping for something in the 200£ -
400£ range. <br>
<blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://Novatech.co" target="_blank">Novatech.co</a>.UK<br></blockquote>This is much more
promising. The <span>Novatech nPro N1574 looks like a winner.<br></span>
<blockquote type="cite"><br>There
may be others too, but those are the ones I've heard of. Which might bode
well.<br></blockquote>To give you an idea of what I'm after, have a look at
the price & specs of Dell's Inspiron 15 laptop.<br><a href="http://www.dell.com/uk/p/inspiron-15-3531-laptop/pd?oc=cn53102" target="_blank">http://www.dell.com/uk/p/inspiron-15-3531-laptop/pd?oc=cn53102</a><br>
My
only misgiving is how to totally & completely remove Windows 8 (no,
I don't want to dual boot; I want a linux-only machine.)<br>Does anyone know
how difficult it is to get around the UEFI problem?<br><br>Thanks again for
your help and brevity is the soul of wit as someone once
said.<br>Cheers,<br>Jonathan<br>
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