Ask your local computer store if they can sell you one without Windows. They may be able to. Another thing you may be interested in, is Dell has a series of laptops that is aimed at Linux users, as it doesn't come with Windows on it. I can't remember what it is called though (it could be the X series, I don't know where that came from). Anyway, if you do manage to find somewhere, it would be great if you could post it here, as I am also interested. Thanks, Josh. <div>On 6/14/06, Andrew <<a href="mailto:andrew@swinndesign.com">andrew@swinndesign.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Howdy all, I have decided that I need to get a laptop in the near future and ideally I don't want to be purchasing a copy of something I do not need. From what I have read this is damn near impossible for laptops, but I thought I would ask on the off chance that some new offering had reared it's head. So if anyone can point me to a laptop supplies in Aus that sells laptops without MS I would love to hear about them. Cheers, Andrew Swinn (Phlosten) -- ubuntu-au mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au </a> </blockquote></div> -- Joshua Henderson