[LAU] no-os laptop

[Ken Restivo]

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:10:19PM +0100, Renato Budinich wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Jeremy Jongepier <jeremy at autostatic.com>wrote:
> 
> > On 02/17/2011 09:27 AM, Renato Budinich wrote:
> > > Hello, how hard is it to get a no-os laptop or linux-preinstalled in
> > europe?
> >
> > Hello Renato,
> >
> > http://www.bto.eu/
> > http://www.mingos.nl/ubuntu-laptops.html
> > http://www.hettes.nl/
> >
> > Some Dutch companies that sell notebooks without OS or with Linux
> > preinstalled.
> >
> >
> >
> thanks. In the meantime I've found this italian blog post which lists some
> places to get linux-laptops in italy:
> 
> http://www.imaniacs.it/2009/05/01/come-risparmiare-sui-notebook-acquistandoli-senza-sistema-operativo/
> 
> I've also mailed Lenovo and they told me that in Italy personalization
> (ram,hd etc.) and no-os aren't an option.
> 

Isn't Lenovo an Italian company? Or, I remember, ThinkPads used to say "Made in Italy" on them back in the IBM days.

-ken