Best cheap laptop for linux?

[Marcelo Magno T. Sales]

Em Sábado 15 Agosto 2009, Dotan Cohen escreveu:
> > I have been doing a little sniffing around on the
> > Linuxbased-PC-market, and have noticed an obsticle which
> > complicates the selling of pre- installed linuxPCs.
> >
> > People using Windows just take what ever thrown to them by
> > Microsoft, but Linux users don't just take any Linuxclone to their
> > hart. Linux- people usualy have a purpose when they choose their
> > OS. Some want Red Hat, some Suse, some Knoppix and some Ubuntu-this
> > or Ubuntu-that. This makes it very difficult to industrialize an
> > unifyed standard pre- installation routine, which produce CASH on
> > the bottom line. Thats why they don't.
>
> Great, so let's just buy our laptops with whatever Microsoft throws
> at us rather than ask for Linux - any Linux - instead.

Besides, if you buy a computer with any flavor of Linux pre-installed, 
you know for sure that the hardware runs fine with Linux. That counts 
much. You know that there's a high probability that if you delete 
whatever Linux comes pre-installed, if you do not like it, and install 
you preferred flavor, it will work.
Another thing to consider is that you pay for the Windows you will not 
use when you buy a laptop with Windows pre-installed.
So, I prefer to buy a laptop with any Linux installed than one with 
Windows installed, if I can choose between the two. Sadly, this is not 
always possible. Very often the hardware I want is not available with 
Linux.

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Marcelo