Have you tried calling them?
On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 13:04, -ray wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, Shannon Roddy wrote:
>
> > Anything to keep money out of Billy's hands!
>
> Speaking of this, i'm about to order a new Dell for my dad. Dell finally
> has the N-series systems (comes with non-MS OS) displayed right next to
> the Microsoft OS systems. So i thought cool, i can finally get a system
> without paying MS tax, and save a few bucks.
>
> But the MS OS systems come with a free LCD monitor upgrade. The N-series
> do not. So building the system with exact same hardware, it costs about
> $80 MORE to get a system *WITHOUT* XP installed. I don't know why Dell
> would offer the upgrade on MS systems and not N-series systems... which
> are exactly the same as far as hardware. I'm not as good a conspiracy
> theorist as some on the list, but can't help wondering if Microsoft has a
> hand in this.
>
> ray
>
>
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