[Klug-general] buying a laptop without windows

[Chris Jeffries]

Probably not strictly what you are looking for, but there are some
refurbished chromebooks around about the £140 mark. The Samsung one with
the smallish ssd, and the Acer version with the bigger drive. Not sure what
the Linux possibilities are with chrome books are but might be worth a
look. I think tesco and Argos eBay outlets are where they are selling them.
On Jul 15, 2014 8:40 AM, "Nathan Friend" <nathan.friend at gmail.com> wrote:
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> http://www.dell.com/uk/business/p/xps-13-linux/pd hefty price tag though.
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> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 6:22 AM, Thomas Edward Groves <
teg451013 at freeuk.com> wrote:
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>> 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
>>> To: Kent Linux User Group - General Topics
>>> 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:
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>>>> There are a couple:-
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>>>> ( 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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