On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 12:51:54 +0200 "Rafi Gordon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello, > > I had encountered before Asus Eee Pc with linux on some israeli > sites; this is indeed a mini laptop. Talking about laptops (not UMPCs > and not mini laptops) - I did not encounter any stores in israel which > sell a "windows free" laptops , meaning that you can purchase them > without Windows. > > I urge anyone that knows about such cases to inform us. I really doubt > there is even one > such store/vendor. > There are such stores and vendors. as for laptops, Dell (from several stores including ivory), MSI (from ivory), I think that Gigabyte. Maybe others. For my wife we bought MSI, for a friend of mine we got Dell, for another friend a desktop from ivory, all without an operating system. > Regards, > RafiG > > > > > On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 12:39 PM, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Rafi Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Zvi, > >> - First, congratulations for winning this important battle ! > >> > >> - Second, I myself intend to buy a laptop in the near future. > >> > >> And indeed, after surfing many israeli websites, I found out that all > >> of them come with windows. I don't intend to use windows on my laptop. > >> So may I ask: How long this process you ran took ? (from going to > >> court till getting that payment) ? what do you advice me to do ? > >> > >> Or let's put it this way: it seems that your important struggle took a lot > >> of time and headache. You won your case. However, from what appears > >> in that news item, I doubt whether it is a precedent. They say there > >> that it was a "pshara", and it says there that they are not > >> binded by this case and it is "לפנים משורת הדין", > >> > >> So what do you advice me to do ? to buy and then to go to court ? > >> It seems to me that all the hassle of such a procedure , and > >> traveling from the north the vendor offices (usually in the center) > >> and back in case I will win it, is simply is not acceptable for me. > >> > >> And if I am not wrong, I heard that there are man known vendors who seel > >> laptops with free linux abroad. And this is true for quite a time. > >> > >> > >> Regards, > >> Rafi > >> > >> > > > > Hi Rafi, > > > > I have recently bought an Eee Pc by Asus from Panda, with > > Pre-installed Linux and no Windows. However, the EeePc is only a > > modest mini laptop, which might not suit your needs. > > > > Orna. > > ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
