[ale] HP ships FreeDOS on laptops

[Denny Chambers]

You must have to call to get the FreeDOS option. I didn't see that 
option offered on any of the laptop that I tried to customize. I wonder 
how much money that will actually save on a laptop, if any. In the past, 
M$ had setup deals with OEM's, so that they get money for every computer 
shipped, regardless of whether it had windows installed on it or not. I 
know when Dell use to offer laptops with RedHat pre-installed, the price 
was the same as if you were buying a windows laptop. A long time ago you 
use to could buy a Compaq with out M$ on it...of couse it had no hard 
drive. The sales rep said if the computer had a hard drive in it, that 
it must be installed with Windows. What a load of B$. I have been 
thinking about buying one of the new HP laptops with the Turion 64 X2 
CPUs. I may call one of thesales reps and ask about the FreeDOS option.

Denny

James P. Kinney III wrote:
> According to the table on the page below, HP ships with FreeDOS as an
> option for all of these laptops!!
> http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF04a/321957-64295-89315-321838-f33.html
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