wanted: performance laptop, no windoze tax

[Andre Robatino]

Ranjan Maitra <maitra.mbox.ignored <at> inbox.com> writes:

> > 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. 

Something that just occurred to me - maybe Windows on high end hardware is
less likely to come with crapware, so you don't get the discount. Or maybe
the price of the Windows license is higher, so the discount doesn't cover
it. The stuff I buy is always cheap so I don't know.