[ltp] thinkpad without windows?

T D linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 1 Nov 2004 10:04:12 -0800 (PST)


Try www.emperorlinux.com . I don't know if you can get
it any cheaper, but I know that it comes with Linux
pre-installed. 

-Tino

--- Eben King <eben1@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Fiz Vázquez wrote:
> 
> > El lun, 01-11-2004 a las 10:22, Jeff escribió:
> > > On Monday 01 November 2004 01:02 pm, Fiz Vázquez
> wrote:
> > > > hi all:
> > > >
> > > > do you know if there are any way to buy a
> thinkpad laptop wihtout
> > > > windows licence? I am not going to use this
> Operative System, and i dont
> > > > want to pay something that i am not going to
> use.
> > > >
> > > > thanks.
> > > 
> > > Unless IBM has changed recently, you will
> actually pay more for a laptop 
> > > without Windows than you will for a laptop with
> Windows. The MS price 
> > > structure effectively pays vendors to install
> Windows. If it isn't 
> > > pre-installed, you are paying the difference
> plus the cost of installing 
> > > Linux.
> > 
> > 
> > :(
> > 
> >  ibm could sell laptops without operative systems.
> In this way i would
> > not pay windows licence neither linux
> pre-installed.
> > 
> > here in spain there are companys than sell
> computers (workstation, not
> > laptops) with linux preinstalled (live-cd i
> think), so the people doesnt
> > pay any extra money for the computer.
> 
> There are in the US too
> (http://penguincomputing.com/ is the first that 
> springs to mind), but thre are a lot fewer companies
> that sell laptops
> for a savings with no OS or with Linux instead of
> Windows.  HP sells some 
> (all?) with SuSE (9.1?), but I don't believe they're
> cheaper.  You might 
> be interested in http://mcelrath.org/laptops.html .
> 
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