On Sun, 04 Oct 2015 14:17:58 -0700 Keith Smith wrote: > The best time to buy is coming up next month. If you can wait, the > week of Thanksgiving should be a good time to buy and of course there > is Black Friday and all the Christmas sales. I only buy during back > to school and Thanksgiving forward to Christmas. > > You can also subscribe to the weekly sales flyer from Staples and > Office Max / Office Depot. Here's the next fly in the ointment. Windows 10 certification requires Secure Boot, but for the first time does *not* require an off-switch for that secure-boot. So a new computer might be unusable in Linux, except for the few big, rich distros who buy certificates from Microsoft to certify their software as "secure". The Linux Foundation supposedly has some distro-agnostic shim, but that doesn't completely assuage my fears. At this point in Linux history, if I buy new, I value Costco's no-questions-asked return policy. SteveT --------------------------------------------------- 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