Hi,

Well Dell certainly isn't the company to deal with. They seem to sell Only intel hardware and only MS software. They wouldn't want to offend their suppliers and risk loosing their special deals. Their must be someone (other than IBM) that sell laptops without windows.

http://www.emperorlinux.com advertise in Linux Journal and appear to have a special deal with Dell whereby they get windows-less machines. Not sure how the prices match up and whether they ship to Canada, but maybe worth a look? Oliver -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml