[plug] Linux laptops - yeah, they've been done before, but ....

[Richard Meyer]

On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 11:41 +0800, Richard Meyer wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 08:06 +0800, Bernd Felsche wrote:
> > Richard Meyer <meyerri at westnet.com.au> writes:
> > 
> > >I was looking around and found
> > >http://store.agearnotebooks.com/asusz33ac.html which is the
> > >customization site for the ASUS Z33A-C models and from the site it looks
> > >like you can choose NOT to have an MS OS installed on the lappy.
> > 
> > >Does anybody have one, who can confirm this?
> > 
> > >Does anyone know how Linux-friendly this machine is? I'm heading off to
> > >Linux-laptops for an international opinion, there. ;-)
> > 
> > Have you looked in http://www.tuxmobil.org/ ?
> 
> Not yet - but I'm going there, thanks   ;-)

Took a look there, and there's no mention of that model - bah!!!!

Anybody know whether you CAN get ASUS laptops in AU without the MS tax
on them?
-- 
Richard Meyer <meyerri at westnet.com.au>
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