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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Well, the list for the one I got is about $2100, has a 128G SSD (M.2) and a 1T Rotator.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">You might want to look in to system 76. They make laptops with Ubuntu installed – I could have had one with 512G SSD, 2T Rotator, 16G RAM, high-speed WiFI,
and some other stuff I forget for about $1480. But it was ‘only’ 1080p, not 4k…
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> PLUG-discuss [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Stephen Partington<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, September 05, 2017 1:23 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Main PLUG discussion list<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Warranty!!?!?!?!?!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"">I would look into one of the models that have the SSD+HDD combinations already (i have seen the 32GB SSD for OS or caching) and use that. But i am looking for something very similar
to that (alienware 17 is looking the most promising) however as i can order it with a spinning drive and add a pair of m.2 ssds later.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 12:47 PM, Herminio Hernandez, Jr. <<a href="mailto:herminio.hernandezjr@gmail.com" target="_blank">herminio.hernandezjr@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">That is weird since Dell sells Linux laptops <a href="http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/555/campaigns/xps-linux-laptop_us" target="_blank">http://www.dell.com/learn/us/en/555/campaigns/xps-linux-laptop_us</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 10:37 AM, irb <<a href="mailto:irb_plug-d@maleficarum.org" target="_blank">irb_plug-d@maleficarum.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">* Carruth, Rusty (aka <a href="mailto:Rusty.Carruth@smartm.com" target="_blank">
Rusty.Carruth@smartm.com</a>) used 15K on Tue, 05 Sep 2017 at 17:21 +0000 to say:<br>
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> (By the way – does anyone remember the ‘windows refund day’ many years back?<br>
> System vendors refused to honor the refund clause stated in the EULA (or<br>
> whatever it was), claiming that Microsoft had to honor it, and Micro$oft<br>
> claimed that it was the responsibility of the system vendors (which, indeed,<br>
> it was). But as far as I know, NOBODY got their refund…. Again, where’s<br>
> the lawyers????)<br>
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I remember that, as part of BALUG many years ago. I never got a refund and<br>
Microsoft tried to turn it to their advantage by setting up a booth. I think<br>
there's a documentary out there somewhere.<br>
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When dealing with warranty crap from laptop vendors I just take an image of<br>
the drive. If I have to send it in I don't include the drive anyway, and I've<br>
never been given grief over it. Still, having an original hardware backup<br>
like that is kinda cool.<br>
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/i.<br>
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