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Gordon Henderson wrote: > My experience with Acers has been quite good - I have both an AAO and An > Acer Aspite 5050 standard laptop thing. > > One good thing is that the Acer Laptops (and desktops I bought for a > company I worked with a while back) seem to come with the hard drive > partitioned into 3: A small windows recovery partition, then the rest > abut 50:50 with a Windows C: drive and a blank D: drive. I unstalled > Debian Lenny on the D: drive (after repartitioning it as I needed it) > and made it dual-boot. I very rarely go into Windoze (it's XP), but > there is one program I need to use which I can only run from XP, and > it's sometimes handy to view a website in IE - other than that I leave > it - so I've never gone to the hassle of wiping it and getting the refund. > > I've bought mine (and wifeys AAO) from Moortek in South Brent - they are > an Acer dealer and a friendly bunch (I knew them when they were based in > Buckfastleigh). > > Gordon > I have heard good reports of Acer laptops and also Asus. I will have a look at Moortek. And, I realise that almost always some version of Windows will be installed. Like you I wouldn't bother with a refund. Unlike you I would get rid of Windows entirely. Regards Neil -- 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