A couple of weeks back, someone at work posted on an internal forum asking whether it’s possible to get a laptop without Windows preinstalled on it. The responses weren’t encouraging and it all went quiet.

Today, he posted to the thread announcing that his wife is now the proud owner of one of these Revo laptops from Novatech. When you select the model you want, you get the option of buying it without an operating system or of paying an extra £50+ or £80+ for Windows XP Home or Pro respectively.

Not only that but he says: “ubuntu 6.06 runs snappily with 1g of ram [and] wireless, hibernation, function keys, all work out of the box.”