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From: "Mark Hughes" <mark@dvdnews.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Laptop without Windows
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 23:25:13 +0100
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> I was looking at buying a Dell Inspiron 8000, but there was no option to
> buy it without a windows os.
> So i called them instead and explained that I wanted to use the laptop
> with FreeBSD. They said that would be ok, but i would have to pay the
> same price, as with the OS.
> Is that normal?
> I know Microsoft is not giving DELL free OS licenses, and I don't want
> to support MS by buying there OS, when I'm not going to use it.

It's not just dell, it's everywhere. Here in the UK, even the small "independant" places,
would not sell me a complete system without chucking in the (microsoft) OS. Annoying, to
say the least.

For the record though, FreeBSD installs just fine onto an Inspiron 8k.

Mark


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