Is it even possible to buy a brand new laptop without an OS installed?

>>60655569
>buy laptop from china

or
>buy laptop
>wipe hard drive and flash motherboard

>>60655569
>Is it even possible to buy a brand new laptop without an OS installed?
last i checked at least some dell/hp machines could be bought with freedos preinstalled
>Can I just buy a laptop and ask for a refund on the windows license?
doubtful, how can they remove/reuse the license once you have the machine? you'd probably need to take it up with microsoft

>>60655569
Depends of the country, In guess.

>Can I just buy a laptop and ask for a refund on the windows license?
Here in France (and elsewhere in Europe i think) you definitively can, but since manufacturer get cheap keys, the refund is only about 30€ or 40€

HP sells some business notebooks (probooks?) with freedos. And you can buy a barebones clevo or MSI. Or system76

>>60655630
It's true but OP notices that the cost for those laptops are almost the same.

He's trying to Jew more than actually wanting to use a different OS

>>60655569
There is no Windows tax. Since 99.999% of people want Windows, they assembly-line install it on everything. This saves more than Windows costs. (they get money for the crapware they preinstall, too.)

>>60655879
Yes there is. Do you really think that manufacturers are just going to eat OS lisence costs and not pass them on to the customer?

>>60655569
>>>/csg/

the teeth girl

>>60656088
they probably offset most of it with pack-in ads like trial antivirus software

>>60656088
There's a "Windows tax" but it's much less than the retail cost of Windows as they get significant discounts for buying in bulk. It's not like you'd save $100 by buying a laptop without an OS.