PowerNotebooks sells rather nice laptops sans operating system. You can choose to have Win2k or WinXP installed for extra if you'd like, but they come standard without anything pre-installed. Reasonable prices, too.
Not only that, but they are also ranked rather high at ResellerRatings.com.
(Not trying to plug them, just pointing out there are non-mainstream alternatives to get Windows free equipment.)
Wrong. They ARE worse than Plextor. "Why?", you ask? Simple. EVERY CD burner makes little errors when burning (more so at high speeds.) Those errors are insignificant for your average geek; but if you're a producer/artist, it matters: you want your masters to be perfect. Plextor drives still have the lowest error margins.
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PowerNotebooks sells rather nice laptops sans operating system. You can choose to have Win2k or WinXP installed for extra if you'd like, but they come standard without anything pre-installed. Reasonable prices, too. Not only that, but they are also ranked rather high at ResellerRatings.com. (Not trying to plug them, just pointing out there are non-mainstream alternatives to get Windows free equipment.)
Sounds like a Lite-On/Pioneer sales rep. has been visiting your forums.
If you're going to make those kinds of claims, please give a source of real data to back it up. Subjective data doesn't qualify.