Re: [tlug] linux notebooks, virtualization, windows

[Kyle Hasegawa <kylehase@example.com>]

 On 8/5/2010 10:32 AM, Dave M G wrote:
> Darren,
>
> I emailed Lenovo sales support to ask if they would be willing to sell
> me a laptop without Windows on it. They said no.
>
> Installing Windows is part of their manufacturing process (they have
> some way of flash-writing the HDs I guess), so it costs them more to
> manually remove Windows by request than to leave it on.

What if you told them you'd remove Windows yourself?  It worked for this 
person who declined the Windows EULA and convinced Dell to refund him 
for it.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/110706-dell-windows.html