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We have a close reason for each of the above, except for "Shopping or Hardware Recommendations.

If these questions are considered off-topic (in my experience they get closed as off-topic with a custom reason or as duplicates of http://askubuntu.com/questions/131/which-computers-are-guaranteed-to-work or similar) then shouldn't we 

- get rid of the [tag:hardware-recommendations] tag so visitors hopefully don't waste time making nice well-formatted posts like [this][1] which will be closed 
- <strike>consider making a close reason, maybe with a link to the question that these posts are normally closed as dupe of?</strike>

[1]:http://askubuntu.com/questions/879810/recomendation-of-ultra-portable-laptop-dual-boot-ubuntu-windows