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Dell laptops without Windows? No, not yet

Steinar: You can get some (few) Dell desktop models with no preinstalled Windows, IIRC they are called the «L series». I tried, however, to get a OS-free laptop. I had to buy my XPS M1210 (sweet machine, BTW) with Windows XP. Tried on the phone, yes.

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Gunnar 2007-02-22 15:28:50

Re: Dell laptops without Windows? No, not yet

The machine looks so far quite good. As for your points:

There are myriads of links regarding this laptop on the Web. This one is among the best: http://wiki.gacq.com/index.php/Installing_Debian_on_Dell_M1210

Oh, and the Debian Etch installer works beautifully (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=410143) - Don’t forget to set it up as an AMD64 :)


Ivan Aleman 2007-02-21 12:51:46

Re: Dell laptops without Windows? No, not yet

Hello Gunnar,

I want to purchase a laptop and I was thinking on an Lenovo/IBM T60, but I notice this post and I also saw you laptop at CONSOL, so I want to know few things,

I have the intention to install Debian (Sid) on this machine and use KDE as WM I know you don’t like it (don’t know why?) still I am in doubt wether to purchase the model you mention from DELL or an IBM T60.

Hoping you can provide some words of wisdom :)

Regards.


Ivan Aleman 2007-02-21 12:55:37

Re: Dell laptops without Windows? No, not yet

And yes would be terrific to purchase Dell or without Windows and plus if you can choose any distro that you like Debian of course :)

Juts like system76.com does, well not exactly they just sell Ubuntu laps buaah :(

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