Hi Johnny
I don't know which country you are in, but here in Australia you save money
if you do not buy Windows:
eg buy a PC* with ubuntu (Linux) $499 (wholesale & ex-tax)
Same PC with Windows XP Home $616 (wholesale & ex-tax)
* based on the AMD Sempron 2500 CPU (lower end but good SOHO model)
James
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From: "Johnny Andersson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 3:20 PM
Subject: Re: [users] Long live Bill Gates!.?
One thing that is frustrating, at least for me, is that when I buy a new
PC
I have to pay more for a PC without an operating system than for a PC with
Windows included. I am not sure that's the fact all over the world, but it
is at least here in my "odd" country. So it feels like if I want a new PC
with Linux, at least I either have to pay for:
1. Windows + PC
or
2. PC + "avoid Windows fee"
where 2 is more expensive than 1...
Doesn't sound fair to me. Why should I pay for avoiding something?
Maybe this is not 100% true, but it least it feels like it is.
Johnny
P.S. I just remembered a funny thing I often read in the local Dell ads in
the papers here. Translated to English it reads something like this:
"Dell recommends Windows XP Professional Edition"
Then I take a look at the different PC's they sell and ALL of them comes
with Windows XP Home Edition... =) So they obviously want you to buy
their
computers with XP Home and then buy an upgrade to XP Pro..? Yeah, right...
D.S.
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