[HLUG] Second user laptops

[Ann]

Thanks for that, £20 is a good saving for me when the machine may be 
around £140 ...  it is a matter of principle that I do not want ms, I am 
plucking up the courage to install pure Arch, and yes Manjaro is still 
my preferred system.

On 05/11/15 20:20, david winterton wrote:
> Dear Ann,
> not having windows on a refurbished laptop saves very little as mircosoft
> pretty well gives their system away and charges for apps like Office.
> On a very unscientific test of one computer ( LENOVO Thinkpad T410 Core i5
> 2.4Ghz 8GB RAM ) Eflex ( who I bought mine off ) were £20 cheaper.
> And if you load your own disc you can use your prefered system, ( manjaro?
> )  Eflex ( and this may be normal ) send laptops already to read from the
> dvd drive first.
>
> P.s. chakra is moving to kde plasma 5 and it is not a simple upgrade, so
> you may not get any more nonsense off me for a day or two, or as the kids
> used to say ' Daddy's playing with the computer it won't work anymore!!!'
>
> On 4 November 2015 at 13:06, Ann <catether at talktalk.net> wrote:
>
>> I always buy second user laptops and my preferred supplier is
>> http://www.valucomputers.co.uk
>> I asked if they would supply machines without windows and they said yes
>> they would, and also on certain models advertised with windows 7 they may
>> also be able to reduce the price a little. This is good to know.
>> regards Ann
>>
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