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Originally Posted by JJ_BPK
Isn't this much like what most of the PC makers do?? They lease a copy of WIN xx and them modify it to fit their machine. They do so much that you can't take a store-bought retail copy of WIN xx and install it.
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You should be able to use a retail copy of WIN and then run Windows update to get most drivers. Anything more specialized is usually in the downloads/support section of the PC's maker.
That T61 is a laptop worth keeping. Tough, solid, reliable as you know. Fewer and fewer laptop models are being built like that. I'm still using a T42 as my pack around laptop in addition to various other PCs and some Macs. It was built in 2004 and is still using all it's original parts. I'm running Ubuntu Linux 10.04 LTS on it now which has really unchoked its meager Pentium M.
Win->Linux conversions have been a popular and ever growing part of my workload for the last few years as various distros have become more refined and more non-CLI inclined user friendly.