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Can't you just buy the Windows one and then wipe the hard drive? That's what I did with my Dell.

Absolutely can. But you don't get Dell support :/

I did actually. In 2012 I wiped my hard drive to install Linux on it. 6 months later the screen of my computer started to act funny, and I could use the guarantee to have my screen replaced.

FWIW it was in UK, maybe in other countries the regulations are different, and probably they would have refused to change, say, my hard drive if there were a problem with it.

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