wanted: performance laptop, no windoze tax

[Robin Laing]

On 2014-07-16 09:07, Neal Becker wrote:
> Sorry, I know this subject has been written about before.  But google shows
> mostly 5 year old info.
>
> What are some recommendations for a relatively high performance laptop that
> works well on linux, and without paying windoze tax?
>

I have read the thread before commenting.

I am going to be purchasing a laptop in the near future and feel the 
same as you.  I will probably setup the computer as dual boot for those 
times that I need Windoze such as updating my old Garmin GPS.

One thing I would suggest is that you don't walk out of the store 
without a valid Windows disk.  I purchased a computer last year and the 
image was on a partition.  I toasted the partition due to my first 
working with gpt and this new partition scheme.  I needed to go back to 
the store and they gave me a copy of the Windows program.

The store thought I could make recovery disks from the system but this 
particular machine didn't have the tools for creating a recovery disk.

Dell is the computer of choice at work but if there are issues, then you 
may be forced to use DEL