On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Jaya Kumar <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi foss people of Malaysia, > > I have a question for you. I recently discovered Harish Pillay's > posting on how to buy a Dell without Microsoft. > > http://harishpillay.wordpress.com/2010/12/27/how-to-buy-a-dell-without-windows/ > . This was a bit exciting to me because I've been waiting to buy a > new PC for 4-5 years now but never felt like I could get a deal from a > vendor like Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc without them including software that > is unwanted and pre-paid for. So, today, I tried calling Dell to ask > about the no-OS Vostro 460 (quad core i5-2400, 4GB, 320GB, dvdrw, > intel hd 2000 = RM2179 with Win7). The sales guy was a bit pushy but > after I begged for help, he confirmed they have a n-series like what > Harish suggested, but the price reduction between the with-Microsoft > versus no-OS was only about RM200 plus and you lose access to things > like dell online backup (although not sure if that's of any real > value). The other two vendors that I called were disappointing. Lenovo > (only one model ThinkCentre A70 with freedos and the hw spec is low > end and can't be customized), and HP-Compaq (still waiting for > response). > I think you'd have better success scouring Low Yat looking for freedos models (e.g. http://images.lowyat.net/pricelist/czone_notebook.pdf) than calling the vendors directly. The vendors these days don't list the no-os versions of their models and they tend to be the lower end models. Getting them to quote you a specific model, then remove the software is practically impossible. > So my question for you is where did you buy your FOSS desktop/build > PC? Also, what is a good 2nd hand market for PCs and LCD (other than > lowyat/mudah/lelong.com.my which are okay but rarely have good > bargains). By the way, if anyone is selling something like the vostro > spec 2nd hand for around RM600, let me know. > Desktops: built from parts, lowyat. Current notebook, from a shop near LowYat: I paid the "tax" for the software, but I got hardware that is supports Linux pretty well (except the fingerprint reader which required some proprietary software[1]). The price he gave for diking out the OEM version of the software is below RM100, didn't take it. Previous notebooks, managed to find models without OS on them. Or SLED10, which was promptly removed. [1] https://launchpad.net/~fingerprint/+archive/fingerprint-gui
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