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Dell was able to pull it off. The only Dell PC I've ever purchased was an Inspiron 1420n which came bundled with Ubuntu 7.04.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2007/10/dell-inspiron-1420n-u...

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That's a fair point. It was a bit later, the interesting bit about the anti-trust suit is also good, I could see how Sony could pull it off, but I still don't think they ever seriously considered it.

In February of that year, I bought a Dell Dimension e520n, which came bundled with a copy of FreeDOS. I still own that computer, which has a 1.86ghz Core 2 Duo, and it currrently runs Arch Linux.

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