[Klug-general] buying a laptop without windows

[Nathan Friend]

http://www.dell.com/uk/business/p/xps-13-linux/pd hefty price tag though.




On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 6:22 AM, Thomas Edward Groves <teg451013 at freeuk.com>
wrote:

>  It's certainly possible to disable UEFI on a Acer Aspire V5, Model ZHL
> because I bought one from Argos for 250£ and then got Marsh Computers
> to rip out the UEFI protection.
> (After W8 persuaded me that Microsoft still hates its customers.)
>
> It's currently running Slackware 14 adequately well.
>
> How they did the deed I do not know.
> Apparently the first hurdle was getting at the BIOS
> after which the appropriate setting was changed to Legacy.
> After that it was all down to fdisk and stuff.
>
> Tom
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Jonathan Kaye <jdkaye at riseup.net>
> *To:* Kent Linux User Group - General Topics <kent at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 15, 2014 5:22 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [Klug-general] buying a laptop without windows
>
> Roger Gammans wrote il 14/07/14 19:24:
>
> There are a couple:-
>
> ( I've not used any yet - reports welcome )
>
> Pcspecialist.co.UK
>
> Pcspecialist is definitely out of my price range. I was hoping for
> something in the 200£ - 400£ range.
>
> Novatech.co.UK
>
> This is much more promising. The Novatech nPro N1574 looks like a winner.
>
>
> There may be others too, but those are the ones I've heard of. Which might
> bode well.
>
> To give you an idea of what I'm after, have a look at the price & specs of
> Dell's Inspiron 15 laptop.
> http://www.dell.com/uk/p/inspiron-15-3531-laptop/pd?oc=cn53102
> 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.)
> Does anyone know how difficult it is to get around the UEFI problem?
>
> Thanks again for your help and brevity is the soul of wit as someone once
> said.
> Cheers,
> Jonathan
>
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