[HLUG] Linux Laptop

[Pete Linnell]

Hi Steve,

Stirling XS, Morgan, etc offer refurb laptops with no OS installed. Also 
you have the option of buying something on ebay with no hdd; or of 
contacting suitable community based IT recycling groups like our chums 
at Bristol Wireless.

There is no price advantage for retailers to offer a non window$ OS 
because of the pre-loaded trial SW they get paid to include, so there is 
basically no opportunity for punters to buy brand new kit which is OS free.

PLEASE someone prove me wrong :)
Pete H@

On 11/12/11 15:09, Steve Horsfield wrote:
> I know this is a path well trod, but bear with me. I am trying to buy a
> laptop - not for me I hasten to add. The only suitable offering I have
> found with linux pre-installed is a 15.6" Lenovo from Linux Emporium in
> Coventry for £ 535. Alternatively I could walk into PC World and pick up an
> equivalent Dell, for example, for £400 and overwrite the Microsoft OS. Is
> there actually no way to realize the advantage of an open source operating
> system?
>
> Steve Horsfield
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