Re: [tlug] linux netbooks?

["Kenneth Burling" <burlingk@example.com>]

On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 10:31 AM, nigel barker <tech@example.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the replies, and for pointing me back to Dell, whose netbook wasn't ready when I last enquired.
> It seems it has to be them or buy overseas.
>
> I refuse to pay the MS tax (no matter how cheap) and add numbers to their sales,
> especially on multiple orders.  I had hoped there might be some enlightened PC
> dealer in Tokyo who had managed to escape the MS blockade that the rest of the
> country suffers. Strangely, pc-k can offer me the eee desktop with linux (or was it
> msi wind desktop - I forget), but not the netbook!
>

The easiest way to get Windows free hardware these days seems to be to
just go the desktop route and buy it yourself piecemill.

The problem there is that it totaly eleminates the advantage of a
netbook (i.e. portability).