Ok. Which aspen systems is you? :-P<span></span><br><br>On Thursday, August 15, 2013, Kevin Fries  wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p>I&#39;ll second the system 76 recommendation.  The company I work (Aspen Systems) for sells bare metal all the time, but they tend to be very high end with E5 dual/quad processors (X9 motherboard with four E5-2690 (8 cores each)  and 16x8gb ram would not be all that unusual for us...  I built one yesterday) .  So, there are places around,  but System76 assembles in California,  is based in Denver,  and builds a solid machine run solely on penguin power...  No MS Tax here. </p>


<p>Kevin</p>
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    <font face="Comic Sans MS">Is there anyone who sells computers
      without an operating system?  Sooner or later I&#39;ll buy another one
      and I don&#39;t want to pay for a Windows license I&#39;ll never use. 
      Also is there anyone selling computers with linux installed?  If
      so which distro?  If all else fails, I&#39;ll just buy the parts and
      build one.  However that might prove difficult if I wanted a
      laptop.</font><br>
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&quot;I get my copy of the daily paper, look at the obituaries page, and if I’m not there, I carry on as usual.&quot;

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