Dell's Open PC Costs More Than Windows Box

fist_187 writes "In this article at The Register, they show thath Dell's Open PC costs more than a PC shipped with Windows XP. That's right, getting a PC with a blank hard drive costs more than the same hardware running Windows XP." From the article: "As it turns out, Dell's sales staffers have a secret web page for the product that you can't find with normal search tactics. A kind lass we'll call 'M' pointed us here. On this site, Dell presents a couple different versions of the mysterious E510n. The lowest-end system starts at $774 and is exactly like the boxes above - including the free flat panel - except it has 512MB of memory. For some reason, Dell told reporters that the box starts at $849 - yet another one of the odd sales tactics surrounding this "open source" kit. [Following the publication of our story, Dell raised the price of the PC back up to $849. See the sales pages below for the original $774 price comparisons.]"

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[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:The Microsoft operating system has negative val

[C0llegeSTUDent]

Aside from Andy Rooney looking and acting a little crazy, you can tell he is very intelligent. I agree with him that the US is spending too much on military by about $400 billion, however, its not like we are buying our military from another country. All the money gets "recycled" in the US economy with income tax, property tax, sales tax, etc. I doubt we even buy high tech weapons from other countries at all.

Now, what we plan on doing with those 8,000 stockpiled tanks is a good question. I'm not even sure that many would fit in Iraq.

Re:Resell Windows

[KillShill]

rather interesting that the defendant's name is Softman.