On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 10:00:54PM -0400, David F. Skoll wrote: > nashjc [ at ] canada [ dot ] com wrote: > > > A non-technical friend is so annoyed with Windoze that she is willing to > > replace just-dead laptop with a Linux box. However, where to buy one? > > Jademark will sell you a PC or laptop with no OS installed, and will > not charge you the M$ tax. They have a lot of Linux-using customers > (including us -- we've bought something like 40 servers from them), > so are quite aware of hardware compatibility issues. > > http://www.jademark.ca/ The Trailing Edge sold me an IBM laptop with no OS, but it was difficult (took two months to get IBM to actually ship one without Windows license). Also I installed the OS myself. Is your friend replacing the laptop with a laptop or a desktop? Desktops are much easier to get either without OS or with Linux pre-installed. If she chooses a cheap os-less desktop, perhaps someone here can offer a service of installing some kind of linux and giving her a quick tour, which she would be able to afford from the savings of buying the os-less economy box. Watch out, many companies will sell you a box with Linux installed, but charge you for the Windows license anyway, in case that matters to you. cheerio, bjb