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Why not By JediJeb on 1/11/2012 6:11:59 PM , Rating: 2 Why
doesn't someone just offer a decent standard notebook with no OS
or programs for a cheap price and let users put on them what
they want?  It would be like building your own PC. But if I
remember correctly didn't MS somewhere in the past push to make
it impossible to sell a complete system without an operating
system?  RE: Why not By TakinYourPoints on 1/11/2012 6:17:51 PM
, Rating: 2 Certain vendors allow you to do this. I believe you
can buy Sagers without an OS installed. Microsoft used to
threaten PC vendors with either increased license fees or
pulling out altogether if they offered no OS or alternative
OSes, but that was a very long time ago before the DOJ came down
on them.  That certainly doesn't appl