wanted: performance laptop, no windoze tax

[Ranjan Maitra]

On Thu, 17 Jul 2014 12:18:17 +0000 Andre Robatino
<robatino at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> Pete Travis <lists <at> petetravis.com> writes:
> 
> > Yes, my experience is that buying user devices like laptops and desktops
> (servers are a different story) > are not cheaper without Windows
> preinstalled.  That wasn't the case ~10 years ago when I
> > started asking, and it wasn't the case recently when deploying ~100
> machines for $dayjob that
> > were immediately reimaged using our Windows site licence without ever
> booting the OEM install.
> 
> Yes, if anything I've found that no-OS machines are if anything more
> expensive, due to the lack of the "crapware discount". And there are
> utilities you can use to backup up the existing activation, and then do a
> clean install, getting rid of the crapware. And on occasion Windows is
> necessary for doing things (like updating firmware) that aren't supported on
> Linux, and you don't need to devote a lot of disk space to it just to have
> it around.
> 

This may be true in general but the Dell XPS 13 with Ubuntu last year
was $150 less than the one with Windoze. 

Ranjan

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