I have been seriously annoyed at how difficult some OEMs make it to choose GNU/Linux. One prevalent characteristics of advertising is that one cannot find identical models with a choice of OS and a published price. Today, I found an exception: HP.
HP, in Canada, sell model KX868AT with that other OS/Home Basic for $599 and model KX869AT with SUSE GNU/Linux for $549. It is SUSE with some M$ investment/co-conspiracy but it is a choice for GNU/Linux. Gotta love it.
I searched for mini-note and did not like my choices but by clicking on the breadcrumb “Ultra-light Notebook PCs” came to a page with real choices. One was a Mini-note with choice of OS. Great! It is buried, but with a little digging we find it. They are charging $50 for the privilege of running the Mini-Note at half speed without saving power. Save your money and buy the Mini-Note with a better OS, GNU/Linux. This thing has a VIA C7 processor. I have seen AMD64 X2 5000 dragging with Vista. I wonder if the battery will last for the boot. Some OEMs will do anything to please M$ but at least they show what it costs to buy the worst M$ has to offer.
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