[ALUG] Cheap Dells

[Adam Bower]

On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 08:58:32PM +0000, mbm wrote:
> 
> There is not a mature enough "market" in such products in the Linux
> world so we end up with the anomalous situtation where a Linux
> installation actually costs the box shifter money - despite the cost of
> the MS install.

....but given that the Dell ubuntu laptops cost £30 less than a Windows
one (Windows Vista Home), you can see that an OEM license for Windows is
£43 from various online stores. It'd make sense that Dell get a discount
from Microsoft and the price difference is reflected in the price
difference of the two machines. FWIW, I did see some on some Dell web
pages recently that Michael Dell himself claims to run Ubuntu on his
laptop so I hardly think it would make sense to say this even if they
were just putting Linux on to say it wasn't cost effective.

Adam
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