Re: sic transit gloria mundi [Was: Windows-free laptop in Israel - possible after all]

2009-03-05 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Ira Abramov writes: > indeed a trouble. the X200 is not as good as the X60 it's priced to > replace. Sic transrit gloria laptopi - Lenovo is sadly phasing out the > good old IBM hardware for this new wave of second-rate design :-( Hi Ira, This is a different topic, but I am interested in what y

Re: Windows-free laptop in Israel - possible after all

2009-03-05 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Oleg Goldshmidt, from the post of Mon, 02 Mar: > service), and left with a nice Lenovo ThinkPad X200 with FreeDOS for > my trouble. indeed a trouble. the X200 is not as good as the X60 it's priced to replace. Sic transrit gloria laptopi - Lenovo is sadly phasing out the good old IBM hardwa

Re: Windows-free laptop in Israel - possible after all

2009-03-03 Thread Dotan Cohen
> I decided that some of you might be interested to know that I got > myself a new laptop a few days ago. The reason for your possible > interest will be not just being good friends of mine (though some of > you undoubtedly are), but the fact that the laptop came without > Windows Vista Ultimate Ho

Re: Windows-free laptop in Israel - possible after all

2009-03-03 Thread Micha Feigin
Nice to hear that there is another source for these. Ivory sells a few of their machines without windows (at least msi I think also dells, maybe more), but although buying a simple desktop from them is ok, laptops other than msi can be a hustle. At the time I found quite a few dell distributors t

Re: Windows-free laptop in Israel - possible after all

2009-03-02 Thread Saba Moshe
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 16:23:45 +0200 From: Dan Shimshoni Subject: Re: Windows-free laptop in Israel - possible after all To: linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il Message-ID: <2d2a24500903020623h364d175fvc0e1f788adfde...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi, - It is g

Re: Windows-free laptop in Israel - possible after all

2009-03-02 Thread Dan Shimshoni
Hi, - It is good to hear about it! - I urge everybody else who has a similar experience with buying Windows-free laptops in Israel with other stores to report in this mailing list. - I believe that the Linux users community in Israel has some power; and I believe that eventually this might inc

Re: Windows-free laptop in Israel - possible after all

2009-03-02 Thread sammy ominsky
On 02/03/2009, at 13:24, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote: Well, it turns out that there is at least one importer who does that. They are http://www.memory4less.co.il, I haven't bought a laptop from them, but I'll second the recommendation of them as a retailer. I purchased some oddball RAM from the

Windows-free laptop in Israel - possible after all

2009-03-02 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Hi everybody, I decided that some of you might be interested to know that I got myself a new laptop a few days ago. The reason for your possible interest will be not just being good friends of mine (though some of you undoubtedly are), but the fact that the laptop came without Windows Vista Ultim