On Tuesday 27 February 2007 12:42, Sunny wrote:
On 2/27/07, Fred A. Miller
wrote: On Monday 26 February 2007 5:05:58 pm Tony Alfrey wrote:
I tried very hard to select the same components: CPU, memory, graphics card, hard drive, DVD.
It would cost me a hundred bucks less for the Vista box. I don't think Dell has quite got this worked out yet.
No.....hasn't started yet. But, you're correct.....they've got to get their heads out of the sand.
Fred
Actually, the Win machines come with lower price because they are "subsidized" by the crap load of preinstalled trial versions of Norton, McAfee, AOL, etc. These companies pay Dell to include their trial versions in their windows install. This brings the price down.
-- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny)
This does not hold up, I think--XP goes for $200 or more, Linux goes for about $100, maybe a buck or two less--I can't believe that these advertisers are giving MS $200 per machine. I would guess that they pay not more than $5.00 per machine, if that much. (Well, I'm not in the advertising business, but that would seem reasonable to me.) It might be that they have to have more technical expertise to make sure that Linux actually runs on the machine, and they have to cover the research and development costs. Also, the help desk for the new Linux owners. --doug -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org