New laptops with a blank disk ?

Does someone know a store which sell blank disk laptops ? I mean, we have to pay for pre installed Windows on their HD; just like we buy desktop computers with a blank disk, it would be cool if we could get the same on laptops, netbooks.
Because, I feel Microsoft is taxing us for (not) using their product even if we'll run linux or bsd or something else and will have nothing to do with the product from Redmond. And why would we pay a licence for something we'll never use ?
I know there are some vendors who sell pre-installed Debian, SuSe, RedHat, but, perhaps that's not our linux option. Do we still pay a licence to Redmond if the vendor just erased Windows and installed Debian on a HD, or the vendor obtained blank disk laptops from a manufacturer ?
A store  in US or Canada please, I believe S&H over border would be acceptable. A mail order from overseas I think would be to expensive.

Inxsible wrote:
picilli wrote:That's only a blank HD without a laptop. Why would we buy an extra HD if we already paid the one with preinstalled Windows in the laptop ?
Why would I assume that you have already paid for pre-installed hard drive? You could buy your "first" hard drive at this site.
You didn't know, all right, but I want to buy a new laptop without sending extra cash to Redmond for their product I will not use. It will be my first laptop, I don't havy any notebooks, laptops, netbooks yet.
I know of vendors in my city who sell parts including blank HD, but they come without a laptop The only solution in this case is to seek a vendor who would sell a laptop without a HD. And than, if such a vendor exist I'll have to open the laptop and install the HD myself, which is not very convenient especially if you are not technically inclined and/or have no experience opening laptops and installing parts.
What I was asking for, is a store with a complete laptops ready to install an operating system on its blank HD, whichever OS we already have on a CD. Imagine I have a legal (and many people do) copy of Windows-whatever-recent--version, on a CD or DVD; by purchasing a new laptop in regular stores you pay MS licence once again, which is ridiculous, especially if we want to run a totally different OS which has nothing to do with Redmond.
Last edited by picilli (2010-07-21 17:28:27)

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