Guido Arnold guido@fsfe.org
Like many of us, I went through the same nightmare and started a collection of hardware vendors who sell either without any software or even with Free Software preinstalled:
Ebuyer.com offer Zoostorm (a rebadged Clevo), often without any software preinstalled. http://www.ebuyer.com/search?mfr=1181
Feel free to add it if you like. wiki.fsfe doesn't allow free edits, OpenID or anything similarly useful, I have lost my wiki details again and guests aren't allowed to reset their own passwords. How much info is lost to fsfe that way, I wonder...
Hope that informs,