[ltp] Re: thinkpad without windows?

[Ken Firestone]

On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Ben Pfaff wrote:

   Fiz V=E1zquez <vud1@sindominio.net> writes:

   > 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 do=
nt
   > want to pay something that i am not going to use.

   "IBM Recommends Windows XP Professional."

   That's all you have to see, at the top of every ThinkPad ordering
   page last I checked, to know that IBM doesn't care about other
   OSes.

When I first went to order my thinkpad, the website listed one without
memory, drive or os. I tried to order it that way, no luck. I called
IBM and accused them of all kinds of high crimes with no luck. Wound
up with the most stripped down TP I could get. But, it still came with
windoze, which is now gone.

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