[Ubuntu-ch] Notebook with Ubuntu or without OS

[nathalie]

hello,
see info there ( in french -- sorry !)
http://wiki.swisslinux.org/fr/association/projets/detaxe?s[]=achat&s[]=portable#magasins_suggeres
you can have links to some shops / in german switzerand as well -  
saling laptop without os or with linux, but some links seem outdated :-\
one shop in france seem to ship  to switzerland as well from its online 
store:
http://www.novatux.com/cat.php
they have laptop with ubuntu 8.04
if you buy to steg computer online, you can have desktop computer 
without OS, but no more laptop ( since 2007 !!!)

but it is very hard / if not impossible /  to find  laptop with Linux on 
local store in switzerland. And dont' ask them as i did (FNAC, SONY .. 
),  to remove the microsoft products for you before you buy it, they 
won't, they will refuse ... Above all: Dell :which french, italian or 
english stores, ( as well as  the us store), sale laptops with Ubuntu, 
Dell switzerland surprisingly, does not ! ( as i remember: it was a 
Dell.com decision two years ago, to offer an alternative to its consumers !)
Do they think swiss consumers are not interested enough ?
It seems that you can ask dell to remove the microsoft system and 
products from your computer and give you the money back, but i do not 
know how much time you have to spend and how much phone calls you have 
to do that bring you to this result ...

cheers

nathalie

Dominique Hausser a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> Sorry to come back with this question, but I am unable to find any info
> on the web today (I did find some couple of weeks ago; I was sure there
> was a link from the Ubuntu Swiss team page).
>
> Where in Switzerland is it possible to buy notebook (ubuntu compatible)
> without OS or why not with ubuntu already installed ?
>
> I'll ask this question because I have to renew my equipment and do not
> want to buy a produce I'll never use.
>
> Thanks in advance for your suggestions and happy new year.
>   

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