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The reason I purchased mine today is that I will never purchase a Windows 8 machine because I hate them and I can't afford a Mac. So the only other OS and that
by richardpetersen 13y ago
The reason I purchased mine today is that I will never purchase a Windows 8 machine because I hate them and I can't afford a Mac. So the only other OS and that is supported and is cheap is ChromeOS. Its all well and good saying Linux, However you have to buy a Windows 8 laptop before you can even put Linux on it.
- o_s_m 13y agoThey have opened up there BIOS, and putting Linux on it is just as easy as any other laptop. Been using one for 1.5 years now.
- richardpetersen 13y agowhat in chrome or windows 8?
- judk 13y agoChromebook. See Crouton.
- richardpetersen 13y agoWow love it :-)
- davidgerard 13y agoYep. I'm on work's Windows 7 laptop right now and hating it. (Linux Toshiba brightness bug is too annoying to live in Ubuntu.) Next netbook I buy will likely be one of these.
- CSDude 13y agoYou could object and get your Windows(~$200) money in pre-Windows 8 era. Not sure about how it works now.
- freehunter 13y agoNo OEM is going to pay $200 for Windows, so they're not going to refund you $200 for Windows. $40 is more realistic.
- jseliger 13y agoI can't afford a Mac Consider buying used, either from Craigslist or a dealer; three-year-old Macs are still very nice and cost about half to a third of new ones (I know, because I sell my firm's old Macs on Craigslist). If you're proficient with hardware, it's also possible to dramatically improve performance by installing a cheap SSD.
- richardpetersen 13y agoI did - I got a PowerPC G4 or G5. The problem was I couldn't upgrade it past os 10.5 and the latest version of chrome at the time wouldn't run on anything less than 10.6 or something like that so nothing would work properly.
- jotm 13y agoOr go with a 'Hac' - get a cheap laptop that can run Mac OS X, they work surprisingly well, updates and all...