On Thu, 17 Jul 2014 12:18:17 +0000 Andre Robatino <robatino@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 ____________________________________________________________ FREE ONLINE PHOTOSHARING - Share your photos online with your friends and family! Visit http://www.inbox.com/photosharing to find out more! -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
