On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 10:47 -0500, p.daniels wrote: > Wow, that's an awful lot of money. Do some shopping on newegg.com, I > got my Lenovo Y510 for under $700. 2 Gb RAM, dual core Intel, card > reader, great wireless, webcam, the whole nine yards, and may I add it > works great with Debian. I've only had it for a few months, but I am > unabashedly thrilled with my purchase, especially at the price (I think it > was a sale, but it was only $100 off or so, that's still well under a > thousand). What I have to wonder is if you still had to pay the Microsoft tax on that, or if you were able to get your paws on a ThinkPad via NewEgg with no OS or Debian preinstalled. > As another poster asked, is Windows a _requirement_? With some > schools it is. Heh, I'd rather fight for a tuition refund than pay for non-free software to attend a class I'm already paying for. Fuck that. -- Paul Johnson baloo@ursine.ca
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