[H-GEN] Looking for a linux laptop

David Harrison davidharrison at gmail.com
Tue May 26 01:47:54 EDT 2009


I sort of missed the bulk of this, so apologies if this was already
mentioned, but Dell have recently announced some of their products will
(finally) be purchasable in Australia with Linux:

http://www.cnet.com.au/ubuntu-to-be-offered-by-dell-australia-339296519.htm

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david / ausgamers



On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 2:15 PM, QuarkAV.com - Hilton Travis <
hilton at quarkav.com> wrote:

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>  On 2009-05-26 12:55, David Seikel wrote:
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> On Tue, 26 May 2009 11:44:36 +1000 Russell Stuart<russell-humbug at stuart.id.au> <russell-humbug at stuart.id.au> wrote:
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>  On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 10:57 +1000, David Seikel wrote:
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>  Can I get that HP without Windows, and without paying the Microsoft
> tax?  Even without an OS works for me, since I would wipe it anyway
> to install Ubuntu myself.
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>  Not that I have seen.  However, more importantly, you have to struggle
> to get a HP with installation media - ie a CD with the OS and drivers
> on it.  Most machines just come with a "recovery partition".
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> Now if you are like me, you will just wipe the OS on the machine, and
> install Linux.  However since you have paid for that MS OS, and since
> there is software and drivers out there that will run on nothing else,
> it is nice to have it lying around.  I install it on a separate
> partition and run it from within a VM in Linux, mostly.
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>  Hmm, thinking about it, if I have to pay the tax, might as well have
> Windows available under a VM for cross platform testing.  Make some use
> out of otherwise wasted money.  lol
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>  Definitely.  :)
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> - HiltonT
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