Same here. I got a new thinkpad that came with wintendo. I tryed to get it blank or with linux, but the bastards wouldn't do it.
But, I'm redeeming myself by setting my dad up on linux over Christmas. He's finally so disgusted that he's willing to go through the effort of learning linux.
Oh, and this notebook had windows replaced the second day after I got it. It's happily running Debian unstable.
Dave "LordBeatnik" Jeffery