I would guess he's talking about buying a windows laptop and wiping it to install Linux. Paying extra to wipe off and replace a dated Linux installation instead seems a bit pointless

I've got my eyes on this:

http://www.razerzone.com/store/razer-blade-stealth

I don't care about the Windows license - frankly, after a decade of ignoring Windows, it might be nice to buy Windows, try it out, and have it alongside Linux. No big deal.

The real thing, of course, will be getting my OSX environment virtualized for the switch...