They pay canonical because it comes with support I believe.
On Aug 15, 2013 9:00 PM, "Joseph Sinclair" <plug-discussion@stcaz.net>
wrote:

> For desktops, there are systems available bare bones and/or complete
> without O/S on NewEgg, among other places.
> Bare Bones (complete except you have to add RAM and Storage, sometimes
> CPU) usually work well, I've had good experience with the small Zotac mini
> desktop systems, there are others (e.g. Shuttle), however.
>
> Laptops are harder; I've only ever seen a very few without Windows
> installed, and aside from the couple of models Dell sells with Ubuntu
> pre-installed (BTW, those are the same price as the Windows laptops because
> Dell pays Canonical as much for Ubuntu as they pay MS for Windows),
> System76 and ZaReason are about the only places I've seen OEM linux laptops.
> A lot of the "linux" laptops were purchased OEM (often Lenovo) with
> Windows installed, then reimaged (Red7 used to do this) with Linux.  That's
> not what you appear to be looking for.
>
> Links:
>
> [1]
> http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/laptops?~ck=bt#!facets=80770~0~1791343&p=1
> [2]
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Productcompare.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100019096&IsNodeId=1&bop=And&ActiveSearchResult=True&CompareItemList=10%7C83-252-027%5E83-252-027-02%23%2C83-218-025%5E83-218-025-02%23%2C83-252-029%5E83-252-029-02%23%2C83-218-024%5E83-218-024-01%23&percm=83-252-027%3A%24%24%24%24%24%24%24%3B83-218-025%3A%24%24%24%24%24%24%24%3B83-252-029%3A%24%24%24%24%24%24%24%3B83-218-024%3A%24%24%24%24%24%24%24
> [3]
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Productcompare.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100006740&IsNodeId=1&bop=And&CompareItemList=32%7C34-314-115%5E9B34-314-115-01%23%2C34-231-067%5E34-231-067-TS
> [4] http://us.shuttle.com/Models.aspx
> [5] http://www.zotacusa.com/
>
> On 08/14/2013 08:32 PM, Derek Trotter wrote:
> > Is there anyone who sells computers without an operating system?  Sooner
> or later I'll buy another one and I don't want to pay for a Windows license
> I'll never use. Also is there anyone selling computers with linux
> installed?  If so which distro?  If all else fails, I'll just buy the parts
> and build one.  However that might prove difficult if I wanted a laptop.
> >
> >
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