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[Tony Alfrey <tonyalfrey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sunny wrote:
> On 2/27/07, Fred A. Miller <fmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

Well, I learn something every day.


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Tony Alfrey
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"I'd Rather Be Sailing"
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