[ale] macbook and linux

Michael H. Warfield mhw at WittsEnd.com
Sat Nov 24 23:04:26 EST 2007


On Sat, 2007-11-24 at 17:39 -0500, Geoffrey wrote:
> Vernard Martin wrote:
> > 
> >>
> >> Okay, I'm game.  I've been looking at the Dell laptops as well, but I 
> >> don't see anywhere on their website that suggests they will sell you 
> >> one without the Microsoft virus.  Pointers?
> > And you won't find it advertised but its there. Rumor has it that part 
> > of the deal that Dell has with Microsoft is that they must sell their 
> > machines with an operating system (although not necessarily Windows) and 
> > they cannot advertise any other operating system other than windows.
> > 
> > So the "N-series" is Dell's machines that are sold without any other OS 
> > but FreeDOS. The URL is
> > http://www.dell.com/nseries

> No laptops listed. :(

	Uh, follow the link that says "View nSeries Notebooks"?

	Mike
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