good deal on Linux notebook (today only)

Fri Feb 3 22:10:45 UTC 2012

On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 03:29:33PM -0500, James Knott wrote:
> William Park wrote:
> >On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 02:44:06PM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> >>I don't think that Best Buy would ever sell a notebook with Linux
> >>preloaded.
> >Or, with English keyboard for that matter.  At stores yesterday, every
> >laptop that I saw had French keyboard.  I'm wondering whether it's just
> >for display, or whether they are actually trying to sell French keyboard
> >in GTA.
> 
> French or multilingual?  A friend bought a Dell a few months back.  She 
> returned it to get a ThinkPad with a "normal" English keyboard.  The 
> ThinkPad I bought in October also had the regular keyboard.

It had bunch of non-ASCII symbols, and the key layout was either
Keytronics or IBM.  
-- 
William
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