Linux costs more than Windows

[Ben Pfaff]

"Marcel Kunath" <kunathma@pilot.msu.edu> writes:

> 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%.

I've heard that big OEMs like Dell only pay something like
$25/system for M$ licenses anyhow, so you probably wouldn't save
very much anyhow.

Buy a laptop second-hand.  I got a great deal that way.