IBM laptop

[Evan Leibovitch]

Scott Allen wrote:

> On Sun Jan 15,2006 12:01:06 AM Evan Leibovitch wrote:
>
>> IBM never publicly offered a desktop or laptop PC without
>> the Microsoft tax; its high-end models wouldn't even give
>> you the option of the less-expensive XP Home.
>
>
> IBM did sell a laptop with Linux installed.
>
> <http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-4PEJF4> 
>

I sit corrected. I would note that the example above must have taken 
some digging; the system Scott indicated came preloaded with Caldera 
OpenLinux.

Maybe one should never say never, but that's a pretty obscure 
counterexample. One could surmise that IBM toyed with official support 
at one time but then, for reasons unknown to us, dropped the idea. 
Certainly nothing publicly available in the current product line offers 
a Linux preload option.

- Evan

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