But not apparently if you are a private customer.
To see my point go to dell.co.uk, configure and buy a Inspiron 8200 Laptop.
XP Home and XP Pro are the only OS options FreeDOS no longer seems to be an option. Neither is the "No Operating system installed" that they offered a few years ago.
In addition to this I have to select either Works, Office XP SBE or Office XP Pro. Again no option for none of the above.
Wayne
On Friday 18 October 2002 12:46, Adam Bower wrote:
On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 09:02:21PM +0000, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
It really bugs me that I have a paid for boxed copy of Win2000 here (sitting unused) , but if I bought a new machine from Dell I would have to buy Windows all over again.
why? you have a full retail copy you can install it on any machine you like, if you don't want to pay windows tax buy your dell with the copy of FreeDOS. Anyhow dell did offer machines with Redhat pre-installed a couple of years back but they dropped it as the amount it cost them to support was not worth the small volume they were selling and they figured that people who wanted Linux would install the distro they wanted, IIRC.
Adam
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On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 01:07:28PM +0000, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
But not apparently if you are a private customer.
To see my point go to dell.co.uk, configure and buy a Inspiron 8200 Laptop.
XP Home and XP Pro are the only OS options FreeDOS no longer seems to be an option. Neither is the "No Operating system installed" that they offered a few years ago.
In addition to this I have to select either Works, Office XP SBE or Office XP Pro. Again no option for none of the above.
what about if you phone them and ask for no OS?
Adam
On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 03:00:59PM +0100, Adam Bower wrote:
what about if you phone them and ask for no OS?
We did this for work and they refused to sell us their machines. Stupid really because we were looking to buy 12 new PCs. So in the end, we bought the new machines from PC sellers in norwich (Cheap as hell + saved a lot on the license fees).
On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 03:55:11PM +0100, Craig wrote:
On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 03:00:59PM +0100, Adam Bower wrote:
what about if you phone them and ask for no OS?
We did this for work and they refused to sell us their machines. Stupid really because we were looking to buy 12 new PCs. So in the end, we bought the new machines from PC sellers in norwich (Cheap as hell + saved a lot on the license fees).
Now that is interesting as we got some dells at work which came without any OS at all, what i am not sure about is what price we paid etc. so they may have charged us the same as with windows...
Adam
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