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Re:In Defense of Free Software: My Case Against Lenovo in Me... by Const-me on Sunday July 03, 2016 @09:20PM (#12028459)
Those aren’t exactly *nix laptops, those are enterprise-targeted laptops without an OS.

And yes, models without Windows are typically cheaper, sometimes significantly.

Consider ProBook 450 G3 X0P36ES versus T6Q45ET. They both have i5-6200U, 4GB RAM, matte 15” FullHD, Intel GPU. The former has FreeDOS preinstalled and costs €540, the latter includes Windows 7 Professional and costs €750.

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Re:In Defense of Free Software: My Case Against Lenovo in Me... by speeder on Sunday July 03, 2016 @10:42PM (#12028670)
I am from Brazil. When I was looking for a laptop in 2013, most non windows laptops, even when compared to identical models that had windows, were usually 130usd more expensive...

I bought then an ASUS n46vm with win8, hoping to remove it and install linux... never figured how to boot any os installer, even after disabling secureboot even memtest86 refused to boot.

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