Re: AMD64-based laptops from HP/Compaq are crippled

From: Andrew Gabriel (andrew_at_cucumber.demon.co.uk)
Date: 08/15/05 

Date: 15 Aug 2005 07:30:14 GMT

In article <trhvf1hh0mrnjad4p6r3rhhbv97bltaen6@4ax.com>,
        Marek Williams <abc@example.com> writes:
>
>And as for the laptops sans Windows, I tried everything to get a
>laptop from HP without Windows before buying the R4000. HP insists
>there is no such thing as a laptop without Windows. I tried the
>corporate department and every other department. I think they might
>have offered a laptop without Windows once, but as far as I know that
>option is history.

We bought some ~20 workstations from HP a couple of years ago.
They were all to run Solaris x86, so we returned all the Windows
licenses to HP and got a refund. In the UK at least, if you
refuse to accept the Windows license, the supplier has no choice
other than to refund you for the Windows license. 

-- 
Andrew Gabriel

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