You can still order certain models without Windows: http://shop.lenovo.com/us/thinkpad-laptops-with-dos.shtml

Xfce does this as well. I'm running Xubuntu 10.10 on my laptop and this is one of my favorite features.

I think 10.10 is a better choice for a netbook at least until this issue gets resolved... https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/760131

Except that that is wrong. A little distribution called Ubuntu 11.04 uses 2.6.38 which is affected. But no one uses Ubuntu, right? https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NattyNarwhal/ReleaseNotes

Yep. And all variations. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NattyNarwhal/ReleaseNotes

We are offering a trade-in program for at least one series of models, but I'd guess it's still around the six-figure range when you include installation and such. There are plenty of feature advantages (e.g. bigger database) of the new models to provide incentive to upgrade as well. A good portion of our sales are upgrades already, either from our old systems or from a competitor's product.

As long as it works, there will always be someone who will still use it instead of upgrading.

My company still buys loads of 3.5" floppies to send monthly data updates to our legacy customers. Since we charge them $X,XXX per year for the subscription we don't want to drop support. It would cost most our customers $XXX,XXX to upgrade to our newer product which supports USB drives and SD cards, so it will be a while before we stop buying 3.5" floppy disks. Our bigger problem is our slightly newer legacy products which use ZIP disks, since the drives and disks for those are getting harder to find in bulk.

Eden of the East was the first thing I thought of. I tagged this 'edenoftheeast'.

Good, only half the universe will be destroyed. =)

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