Linux costs more than Windows

[Marcel Kunath]

Yeah I am a frequent visitor on that site. I guess I feel the urge to buy
something. I noticed the same laptop in home and business section are priced
differently. I could be wrong but I also hate how they bundle the stupid OS
and office suite. I had a look at compaq.com because they offered an AMD
Athlon and I'd much rather get that instead. Dell supposedly will offer that in
the future as well and I am curious to see it. Whichever way I configure my
dream laptop I can't get it below $2300.00 argh. If they just left off the
stupid win and works you'd save 15%.

mk

> > I'm looking at laptops, on which
I will likely run
Linux most of > the time.  I went to Dell's website and priced out a bunch of
> models.  I found in the Small Business section the option for Linux
> laptops!  Cool!!!  So I opened up another browser window and priced
> two identical machines, one with WinME and Office XP Small Business
> (and an internal 56k mini-PCI modem) and the other with Linux.
> One was $1674 and the other was $1764.  Guess which was which...
> ;) For some reason, Red Hat Linux 7.0 costs $90 more than WinME
> and Office XP *combined*!!!!  I suspect it would be another $50
> more expensive for them to leave the hard drive *blank* and not
> give me any software at all... =P
>
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> Edward Glowacki            glowack2@msu.edu
> Michigan State University
> "...a partial solution to the right problem is better than a complete
> solution to the wrong one." (http://uiweb.com/issues/issue14.htm)
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