On Thu, Jun 25 2015, Mick wrote: > On Thursday 25 Jun 2015 16:06:31 Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 10:36:36 -0400, [email protected] wrote: >> > > The XPS 13 at least is available as a "Developer Edition" that comes >> > > with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS instead of Windows. >> > >> > I "dual boot" windows and gentoo. The quotes are there since my current >> > machine (3 years old) has never been in windows post-installation. The >> > advantage of having windows available occurs if you need dell >> > maintenance. >> >> Which is a rather poor reason for keeping Windows around. The Ubuntu >> version is not significantly cheaper, but it would make dealing with >> support that much easier if the machine was supposed to have Linux on it >> in the first place. > > When I bought my 16" XPS Ubuntu was definitely not available and when I asked > (repeatedly) I was told that if I wanted a Linux OS I would have to buy a > cheaper laptop that came with Ubuntu. They were also adamant in their very > polite Indian accent that the only OS that came with the laptop I wanted was > MSWindows 7 and they would not sell it without an OS. > > Of course if you are a big corporate customer they will be more accomodating, > but in my case they were reading off a script with any option available for > me, as long as it was exactly what was shown on the Dell website. :-p
Interesting. When I just now logged into dell.com I could find the latitude 7450 with 16GB RAM and 500GB SSD. But ubunto was *not* there and neither was a 1920x1080 non-touch screen. Indeed many fewer options that when I logged in premier.dell.com and went to the same laptop. allan
