A shop recently opened in Nelson, offering, if I remember correctly, systems without Windows for >$100 less than those with. I dropped in to investigate. The salesgirl suggested that a non-Windows PC would be useful to the customer who already had a copy of Windows to transfer over. No mention of Linux. Still, they've got the right idea.
=====Andrew On Fri, 2003-08-22 at 19:12, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 18:09, you wrote: > > > I purchased a PC from DSE for that reason alone...unfortunately they > > seem to have canned selling the machine, since very few people took > > the opportunity to buy one. > According to the manager in the Columbo St. shop the difficulty is the > combination of availability of supply of a suitable machine with a pre-loaded > Linux and the price thereof. He gave me the distinct impression that me that > more machines are somewhere in the pipeline.
