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Paul Sutton wrote: > Simon Robert wrote: >> On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 06:59 +0800, Steve Ellis wrote: >> >>> Hi >>> >>> I have just ordered a new laptop which will come with XP. >>> >>> I have no intension of using XP. >>> >>> Does anyone know if you can and how you get a refund for XP that is >>> supplied with the laptop? >>> >>> I remember a few stories of this sort of thing in the past. >>> >>> Has anyone done it & is it worth doing it? >>> >>> Thanks Steve >>> >>> >> > Looking at this, what would it take to have sponsor banners on the lug > site or links to recommended companies, for say £10 one off charge or > per year, that way we can recommend businesses who either directly > support OSS, or do things like this, which benefit us non Windows users. > > Paul > I live in Holsworthy and we have a local computer shop, PC-PlanIt which I use. They built me a computer two years ago, to my spec. They know that I never use Windows and they were perfectly happy to provide the computer with no OS installed. And no, they did not charge me for Windows. And even better, a couple of the people who work there use Linux themselves and are not phased by it. Neil Winchurst -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html