Not paying for Windows would help to reduce cost. Lenovo does sell laptops with free DOS. But I see that Dell in India does not sell any such machine. So I would suggest Lenovo. Their website lists all products with price. You can make your choice according to your budget.
PS: Technically you can get a refund on Windows with *any brand* by declining the Windows EULA that shows up and returning the discs. But Windows 7 EULA is tricky and states that you must comply with the Laptop Manufacturer's refund policy which in many cases is to return the whole laptop for a refund and not a partial refund for Windows 7 On 21 June 2011 09:46, Narendra Diwate <[email protected]> wrote: > I am thinking of buying a Budget Laptop (About 25K INR, Not Netbook, so NO > Atom or similar). Towards that end, because I want it to be fully compatible > with Linux, was looking at Ubuntus page of supported/tested hardware ( > http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/). I find that Lenovo and Dell have > the most models that are supposed to work well with Ubuntu. I assume broadly > that this is true of all Distos. > > So these are my requirements: > > 1. Budget of 25K. > 2. Atleast an Intel i3 or its AMD eqivalent. May go for Core2Duo if can't > find one in budget. > 3. Good battery life of atleast 4or5 hours. > 4. 3GB RAM atleast. > 5. Card Slot, Webcam, Bluetooth, Wifi. > 6. Am looking at as light as possible in this budget, so if it comes with > an Optical drive to reduce size/weight, so be it. > 7. Atleast 250GB HDD. > 8. Know to work with Debian/Ubuntu/Linux. > > Please advice if these are reasonable/outlandish expectations. Any specific > models/brands to look at. Any recent experiences that you went thru. Any > Deals out there etc. > -- > Regards > > Narendra Diwate > > > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in > > -- Rohit R Third Year Int MSc Student Dept of Physics IIT Kharagpur
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