Lenovo, please offer Linux/PC-DOS on X series.

Lenovo is still not doing it right with their Linux initiative.

1) X series don't offer Linux as an option. They still force people to pay $50-$100 for the crappy, slow, buggy, stupid, bloated Vista. Fine, just ship the Thinkpad with PC-DOS. I will install it myself.

2) The Linux version of T61 has limited hardware selection. No webcam, and only come with older CPUs. We still have to pay Micro$oft tax to get the webcam and new CPU. We want the COMPLETE hardware selection AND Linux. Not either or.

3) Why not Ubuntu? Not that it matters. A lot of people do their own fresh Linux install anyway.

ASUS, Dell already have been pumping out Linux laptops like crazy, and people like them just fine.

What do you think? Do you feel the same way?

 

I, for one, am outraged that they don't offer OS/2.

 

Sorry for the ignorance, but what is OS/2? Isn't that the old style round connector for the mouse?

 

OS/2 is an operating system, jointly developed by IBM and Microsoft in the 1980s as a successor to DOS, before they parted ways. After the split, Microsoft captured the desktop market with Windows while IBM continued to develop OS/2.

PS2 is the mouse connector to the ATX desktop form factor.

 

Ach so! There we go. Thanks for the clarification.

Technically, laptops coming with DOS won't go against the PC/Windows deal, right?

 

isn't Os/2 used on apple machines?

 

Good news, I've discovered a screenshot of the new T400/500 recovery discs.

 

Lenovo should offer an option: No hard drive.

So we don't have to pay for their overpriced hard drive and Micrapsoft Vista.