Re: [SLUG] Recommendations - Laptop / Notebook Running Linux (RH62)

[David Sainty <saint@nospam.ifix.net.au>]

Well.....

I'll be doing a similar thing. If I can't get the notebook without Windows
I'm _refusing_ to buy. I'll wave the cash in the reseller's face and say
"This could have been yours.". Its not the money, its the _principle_. I
will not pay Microsoft a _TAX_, and I won't pay for something that is
useless to me, and which I can't even resell anyway!!  Good going Jon. :-)

I think I'll be after a Dell. Thanks for your recommendations guys. :-)


David S..

On Tue, 30 May 2000, Jon Biddell wrote:

> At 07:23 PM 5/30/00, Matt Allen wrote:
> >Gday
> >
> >I have a Dell Inspiron 3700 running RH6.2 which was upgraded from 6.1.
> >Works like a dream ! Dell released drivers for the 10/100 3com network
> >card and the funky on-board sound.
> 
> <much snipping>
> 
> Did you purchase this with EvilWare and blow it away, or with Linux (or no 
> OS ?)
> 
> I was about to plonk down a sizable slab of discretionary income for a 
> Gateway 9300XLS (15.3" screen, 18Gb HD, 256Mb RAM) and had an argument with 
> them about the old Windows licencing agreement - their comment was that 
> it's too hard, and removing Windows would only drop $10 off the price 
> because of their licencing agreement with TSOS (The Spawn Of Satan).
> 
> I was, on a matter of principle and because I refused to accept the licence 
> agreement, prepared to accept the miniscule reduction in price, but the 
> Gateway store at Castle Hill wouldn't hear of it. When I told them that 
> they had just blown an $8k+ sale (and even showed them the $$$ to prove it 
> !!), they had the hide to say "... your attitude is wrong - all you Linux 
> nuts are the same, you want something for nothing".. How he reached that 
> conclusion is still a mystery.
> 
> Jon
> 
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