Are you questioning whether people would actually buy Linux
pre-installed? Or whether people would actually buy a Dell
laptop which is hardware support for Linux by Dell?
No, I'm asking whether anyone here is actually planning to buy one.
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Hawaiian Astronomical Society:
Ars Technica reports that the Windows tax is approximately $50:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070525-windows-tax-is-50-according-to-dell-linux-pc-pricing.html
Here's another report with some fairly comparative systems:
http://www.cs.uml.edu/~ntuck/dellbuntu/
+ you get the added benefit
Julian Yap wrote:
Ars Technica reports that the Windows tax is approximately $50:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070525-windows-tax-is-50-according-to-dell-linux-pc-pricing.html
Greater than $50, when you factor in the cost of something more than
Vista Home Basic. So, not bad
Peter Besenbruch wrote:
The base Dell laptop comes with 512 meg. of RAM, good to go for Ubuntu,
that's for sure. My daughter's school laptop has been going strong for
two years.
512MB may be enough, but 256MB is not.
I just loaded xubuntu on a Dell Inspiron 2600 for my father (it had
