good deal on Linux notebook (today only)

Sat Feb 4 04:57:06 UTC 2012

On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 05:10:45PM -0500, William Park wrote:
> 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
                                                            ^neither :-)
> Keytronics or IBM.  
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