Dear Gaurav, On Feb 20, 2008 12:09 AM, gaurav chaturvedi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All ths talk of supporting laptops with foss is well and fine, but I > wonder how many of many of us would *actually* buy a laptop just > because it has FOSS installed in it (i know i wont) because most of > these comanies use non MS os just to make cheap laptops even cheaper. > Also if i was going to have just one laptop i would rather pay a bit > more and buy something which i *know* comes with good and reliable > after sales service.
I bought an IBM ThinkPad without OS last year. You wouldn't call an IBM ThinkPad cheap laptop? And I saved almost 5 K. :-) I had a choice between Toshiba and IBM. I choose IBM because there are willing to give me laptop without OS. Toshiba insisted I buy with default OS. Vote with your money! I installed Ubuntu 6.04 on the laptop and it works for me. I have yet not given to temptation of upgrading to Ubuntu 7.10. :) With regards, -- --Dinesh Shah :-) -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
