Hi Jon, On Wednesday 04 May 2011 21:42:48 Jon Grant wrote: > I did not succeed. they refused, unfortunately. Shame on Acer UK of in > Plymouth.
This seems to be a common attitude, unfortunately. I guess manufacturers regard the provision of an OS as essential to operation of the machine and why would anyone want to remove or change it? > Eventually I ran out of time, and then found a friend who wanted the > Windows7 code anyway. Instead I've decided I will simply buy the laptop > from a company like Dell which sells ubuntu laptops next time. > Otherwise, hopefully the EU would legislate eventually to support > purchasing laptop without OSs. I am presently looking for a decent, N550-based, netbook having suffered problems associated with an Asus Eee 900 (apalling battery life) and an Acer Aspire One AO751 (non-existent Poulsbo graphics support in newer distributions). While Dell may be GNU/Linux friendly, I find the specifications of some of their products considerably inferior to competitors on a price-for-price comparison basis. A bigger issue for me, accepting that I will throw away Windows and install GNU/LInux, is that doing so will probably void my warranty. It shouldn't but I suspect that attempting to make a warranty claim after switching the OS will have its share of problems. Regards, Neil Darlow _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list Fsfe-uk@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
