I have a laptop from zareason that I've used for several years. It was a touch pricey, but still powerful enough to do a lot. They also will install different flavors of linux for you. Phil Waclawski On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 5:25 PM, Mark Phillips wrote: > Rusty, > > Did you check out System 76 laptops? They come with Ubuntu installed, but > I think you can ask for any distro. I have been using their hardware for a > couple of years, and it is flawless. > > Mark > > On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 5:18 PM, Michael Butash wrote: > >> I just went through this with a new dell, where I used the local windoze >> tools to make a usb backup imagine with their software to a 16gb drive, and >> just tossed it in a drawer if I ever need to restore things. That >> supposedly restores their recovery partitions and windoze itself, which >> should be everything... >> >> I'd not put faith in some tier 1 rep telling you linux voids the >> warranty. It was probably one of those "What is linux? Yeah, don't do >> that." sort of comments ignorant agents might spew, but otherwise shouldn't >> matter. If you restore the disk and bios to prior function, they should be >> none the wiser anyways. >> >> -mb >> >> On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 10:37 AM, irb wrote: >> >>> * Carruth, Rusty (aka Rusty.Carruth@smartm.com) used 15K on Tue, 05 Sep >>> 2017 at 17:21 +0000 to say: >>> > >>> > (By the way – does anyone remember the ‘windows refund day’ many years >>> back? >>> > System vendors refused to honor the refund clause stated in the EULA >>> (or >>> > whatever it was), claiming that Microsoft had to honor it, and >>> Micro$oft >>> > claimed that it was the responsibility of the system vendors (which, >>> indeed, >>> > it was). But as far as I know, NOBODY got their refund…. Again, >>> where’s >>> > the lawyers????) >>> >>> I remember that, as part of BALUG many years ago. I never got a refund >>> and >>> Microsoft tried to turn it to their advantage by setting up a booth. I >>> think >>> there's a documentary out there somewhere. >>> >>> When dealing with warranty crap from laptop vendors I just take an image >>> of >>> the drive. If I have to send it in I don't include the drive anyway, and >>> I've >>> never been given grief over it. Still, having an original hardware backup >>> like that is kinda cool. >>> >>> /i. >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >