If someone sells laptops w/o Windows installed

Peter L. Peres plp-ysDPMY98cNQDDBjDh4tngg at public.gmane.org
Fri Aug 29 14:19:44 UTC 2003


On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> What brands would these be?  I am currently helping a friend find a new
> laptop, and would love to avoid the likes ofd Dell, Toshiba, Sony, etc.

These brands seem to change with the seasons. They have two things in
common: they are mostly made in Taiwan, and they come 'bare bones' w/o
anything excepting psu and battery. I do not know where to get these in
Canada, here they appear on specials in the local newspapers etc almost
every week. They are usually stuffed with hdds etc by local
small integrators and you can up/downgrade at will. I will try to get some
names for you next week. The quality is more than reasonable.

Whatever happened with Sony Vaios and Crusoe ? I thought those would be
very compatible with linux ? No more ?

Peter
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