<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 18-Jun-2015, at 10:46 am, Pravin Dhayfule <<a href="mailto:pravin@dhayfule.com" class="">pravin@dhayfule.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class="">Hi,<br class=""><br class=""></div>Gone are those days when we could get Laptops free from pre-installed OS. These days none of the new laptops in India are available with/without OS. All offer Windows 8.x as mandatory OS. I do not want to take the pain of first spending for an unnecessary OS and then reformat and install Ubuntu on it. Secondly the problem with Secure Boot scares me. Finally even after passing through these torments what if the hardware does not have Linux support.<br class=""></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class=""><a href="http://www.amazon.in/Dell-Vostro-3445-Inch-Laptop/dp/B00LGMCKJ0?tag=googinhydr18418-21&kpid=B00LGMCKJ0&tag=googinkenshoo-21&ascsubtag=9dc247b1-4927-41b3-b2cc-9d7e1c0d4fda#productDetails" class="">http://www.amazon.in/Dell-Vostro-3445-Inch-Laptop/dp/B00LGMCKJ0?tag=googinhydr18418-21&kpid=B00LGMCKJ0&tag=googinkenshoo-21&ascsubtag=9dc247b1-4927-41b3-b2cc-9d7e1c0d4fda#productDetails</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There are more like this one.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-a</div></body></html>