Looking at the offer in a store of choice, I found one interesting model, available without any preinstalled OS, which is Lenovo Ideapad 330-17AST, coming at about 310 GBP, according to the actual currency translation - in your country, there is probably about a 5% margin in the price, but in my country, electronics is not that cheap either. Anyway, the mentioned laptop has a 17.3" screen, FHD native resolution, 4 GB of RAM (2133 MHz), 256 GB SSD drive, AMD A6 processor (2.6 GHz, 3.0 GHz Turbo, 1 MB Cache) and Radeon R4 integrated graphics. USB 2.0 and 3.1, Bluetooth, DVD drive, camera, microphone, stuff. Nice casual consumer piece of tech.
For the current offers I see, it is hard to find anything with more than 4 GB of cheap quality RAM, without going further than roughly 300 GBP.
What is really the point? The point is, if someone wants Linux, they can get it, but it takes to become involved. Majority of machines come with Windows 10 preinstalled and even though it does increase the price a little bit for certain, the difference is not really worth a damn to casual consumers, to have a machine which will not simply work out of the box when shipped already.
Perhaps you could take an angle in your business that would aim at providing support to people buying a computer without any preinstalled operating system, to get them hooked up on Linux.
For the argumentation, be it either financial savings or having a better piece of tech instead for the money.
But honestly, I think sooner or later you would need to answer some questions regarding the infrastructure or rather, the lack of it. It is not worth the risk on your behalf, I think. Not for that money.
In the contemporary Linux, one needs to think for oneself.
For the current offers I see, it is hard to find anything with more than 4 GB of cheap quality RAM, without going further than roughly 300 GBP.
What is really the point? The point is, if someone wants Linux, they can get it, but it takes to become involved. Majority of machines come with Windows 10 preinstalled and even though it does increase the price a little bit for certain, the difference is not really worth a damn to casual consumers, to have a machine which will not simply work out of the box when shipped already.
Perhaps you could take an angle in your business that would aim at providing support to people buying a computer without any preinstalled operating system, to get them hooked up on Linux.
For the argumentation, be it either financial savings or having a better piece of tech instead for the money.
But honestly, I think sooner or later you would need to answer some questions regarding the infrastructure or rather, the lack of it. It is not worth the risk on your behalf, I think. Not for that money.
In the contemporary Linux, one needs to think for oneself.