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To: Echo Talon
then dont buy it. people buy it then complain. then buy it again and again.

I don't (it came bundled with my laptop, but it's been wiped off in favor of a real OS). You can build your own desktop, but with a laptop you're pretty much stuck paying the MS Tax, which a great many people find irksome (consider how much the hardware would cost if OEMs sold pure hardware). Furthermore, not buying the software does not change MS's anti-competitive tactics.

213 posted on 10/20/2006 8:31:30 AM PDT by Señor Zorro ("The ability to speak does not make you intelligent"--Qui-Gon Jinn)
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To: Señor Zorro
You can build your own desktop, but with a laptop you're pretty much stuck paying the MS Tax, ...

Not really. I bought this laptop abot 3 years ago without paying for Windows. The vendor was very good about allowing me to order it without any OS pre-installed.

It has never had MS on in (except in a VM), and it never will. And it'll be good for a while yet as it has a 3.2Ghz Desktop HT CPU, 1G RAM, a full-sized keyboard, and (at the moment) 80G HDD. I'm looking at adding a 120G HDD in the near future.

The point is that if you really don't want MS, you just need to shop around a little, and vendors who will work with you are fairly easy to find.

214 posted on 10/20/2006 8:43:57 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: Señor Zorro

you can get any computer without windows preinstalled, if not then sue them..


218 posted on 10/20/2006 11:12:10 AM PDT by Echo Talon
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