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Re:Ask HN: Cheap and Cheerful Laptop for BSD/Linux: what are... by S4M on Monday November 03, 2014 @05:02PM (#8553850)
Can't you just buy the Windows one and then wipe the hard drive? That's what I did with my Dell.
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Re:Ask HN: Cheap and Cheerful Laptop for BSD/Linux: what are... by Alupis on Monday November 03, 2014 @05:21PM (#8553939)
Absolutely can. But you don't get Dell support :/
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Re:Ask HN: Cheap and Cheerful Laptop for BSD/Linux: what are... by S4M on Tuesday November 04, 2014 @06:27AM (#8556023)
I did actually. In 2012 I wiped my hard drive to install Linux on it. 6 months later the screen of my computer started to act funny, and I could use the guarantee to have my screen replaced.

FWIW it was in UK, maybe in other countries the regulations are different, and probably they would have refused to change, say, my hard drive if there were a problem with it.

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