Dell have been offering no O/S on business PC's/laptops for at least 2 years now. You just have to be in the loop :) Servers have always been avalaible with no O/S for as long as I can remember. And yeh they give you a free copy of DOS. Andrew.C
_____ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Machell Sent: Sunday, 4 March 2007 10:16 PM To: General Practice Computing Group Talk Subject: Re: [GPCG_TALK] Which switch? On 04/03/2007, at 1:29 PM, Andrew wrote: Yes I have to agree, I see linux with no price tag and I run like h*ll :) (For those who can find some reason not to buy a Mac) I note that Dell have again bowed to user requests (on dellideastorm.com) to supply computers without a Microsoft OS: http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/e510_nseries?c=us <http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/e510_nseries?c=us&cs=19&l= en&s=dhs> &cs=19&l=en&s=dhs Microsoft's newest licensing policy forbids them to sell a computer with no OS, so in a very cheeky move they will supply a copy of FreeDOS on CD - an OS that would be of no use to anybody today. Peter.
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