On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 09:52:47AM +0200, Dan Shimshoni wrote: > Hi everybody, > > Reminder: > On 3.12.08, we heard about Zvi Devir and his "Successful Windows Vista > refund" - see: > http://www.mail-archive.com/haifux@haifux.org/msg03372.html > > And later, there was a lecture in Haifux by Zvi Devir about it: > see: http://www.mail-archive.com/haifux@haifux.org/msg03451.html > > And now what ? > > I went last week to two stores in Haifa area, of very large and > country-wide computer network stores; > I do not want to mention names here. > > I asked about some models of laptops (Lenovo and others) ; they told > me that they are not > selling these models of laptops without Windows Vista, and that "it is > everywhere thus". > When I told them about Zvi Devir and his case, they laughed. It did not > interest them, and they said that they are not going to change anything > in this policy.
Cheaper Dell models in Israel seem to be distributed with FreeDOS as an OS. Some Acer laptops are distributed with some Linux distribution (Linpus. Yeah, a distro iwth such a name really exists). Not sure about others. Best of luck if you go for a more expensive model. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend _______________________________________________ Haifux mailing list Haifux@haifux.org http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haifux