10 Dec
2007
10 Dec
'07
2:16 p.m.
Barrys linux mail bazubuntumail@tiscali.co.uk wrote:
Dell now do linux machines maybe others will follow.
I've read (and I think I checked when a family friend was after a new laptop) that it's cheaper to buy a Dell Windows machine of the same spec than to buy one of their Ubuntu machines. Also, you can try for the Windows tax refund.
So, that makes me wonder if Dell are either:- a. market-testing the gullibility of Ubuntu users; b. looking to say "well, demand wasn't as high as predicted" when they accept the Microsoft shilling to become an exclusively Windows vendor.
Paranoid or experienced?
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