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Lenovo Delivers SuSE Linux-Based ThinkPads

Posted by kdawson on from the another-nail dept.

angryfirelord notes a DesktopLinux article on Lenovo's promise to deliver ThinkPads with pre-installed Novell SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 in the week of January 14. Quoting: "Lenovo will release pre-installed SLED 10 on its Intel Centrino processor-powered ThinkPad T61 and R61 14-inch-wide notebooks. In February, Lenovo's pre-integrated Novell Linux offering will expand to include some Penryn-based ThinkPads. The starting price for this system will be $949, $20 less than the same laptop with Vista Home Premium."

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  1. Re:MS tax by Syonax · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The OEM price of windows is much more than 50 dollars.

    I managed to buy a thinkpad T60 in the Netherlands a few weeks ago with a preemptive windows (XP) refund. The dealer removed the OS and gave me a discount for the OEM price, which was 129.71 euros, about 190 dollars.

    I would have been happy for Lenovo to give that money to a random linux distribution, but now I can decide myself which one gets it.

  2. I hope they do better than Dell ... by Godji · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ... and actually put Linux on some of their really good business-class machines, as opposed to their cheaper "entry-level" "home" flaky laptops. Write this down, Lenovo and Dell: I don't want Linux because it's cheap; I want it because it's better and free. Now give me that great laptop that a Windows user can already buy, put Linux on that instead, and you have my 1500 euros.

    That, or I'm getting an Eee.