Staples is really good about it also. On 2015-10-04 16:01, Steve Litt wrote: > 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 -- Keith Smith --------------------------------------------------- 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