[Gllug] New PC/laptop without Windows preinstalled

Jasper Wallace jasper at pointless.net
Thu Sep 2 17:27:55 UTC 2010


On Thu, 19 Aug 2010, Sanatan Rai wrote:

> Folks,
>     I have been looking to purchase a new desktop/laptop for home,
> but so far haven't been able to find a vendor that'll sell me a clean
> machine without any operating system. I've tried PCWorld/Currys and
> Dell + online sites of other major manufacturers.
> 
>     Is there any place I could get a brand name PC without Windows?
> If not, have people been successful in getting the OS cost refunded?

I got a 15in Enigma laptop from these guys without an OS:

http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/

It works fine with ubuntu. I don't think they do quite the same model, but 
they do have a fairly wide range.

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