Dell PCs with Ubuntu Are A Little Less Expensive

Chandon Seldon writes "Contrary to many earlier reports, it turns out that Dell's prices for its Ubuntu PCs are cheaper than similar Windows Vista PCs for all three Models. Ars Technica reports: 'So it turns out that not including Windows saves the consumer $50 from the regular list price. This amount is not too far off from what a large OEM like Dell would pay for a volume discount for Windows Vista Home Basic (the regular OEM price is about $95). Many value PC sellers try to make up for the cost of a Windows license by bundling demo and trial versions of software such as AOL (affectionately known as "crapware"), for which they receive money from software companies looking to increase their distribution levels. Dell is no exception to this practice, although on their web site it allows customers to select the option of not including various applications.' For direct comparisons, Nat Tuck of Umass-Lowell has put together a simple page showing prices for Ubuntu and Windows-based PCs."

Comments

Re:Well, people, time to cough up the dough

[drinkypoo]

After all the comments that Dell should sell Linux machines, and that they shouldn't charge more for them than the Linux one, it is time to put your money where your mouth is and start buying these beauties.

I'm not buying a laptop until quad-core units roll out.

It's not enough to put Linux on a laptop I don't want and expect me to buy it.

If you want to pay for me to buy a laptop I don't want, though, that would be okay.

Re:Not really a troll

[ScentCone]

Either a bunch of Microsoft and proprietary software fanboys have started to camp on Slashdot (an awefully strange place for an MS fanboy to hang out) or the industry has recognized that Slashdot is a critical front in the development of Tech trends and prevailing attitudes and there are now paid PR shills monitoring Slashdot.

Um... that, or a lot of Linux fanboys are growing up, and some of the more aggressive "information wants to be free" hippy-types are realizing that sometimes a viable business model and a paycheck is actually HELPFUL as you get older.

Re:Not really a troll

[ScentCone]

But that doesn't explain the blatant censorship of those who have not sold out.

I've pretty much decided to adopt a Godwin-like approach to anyone who uses the word "censorship" without actually knowing what it means, and especially to anyone who DOES know what it means, and is shrilly using it wildly out of context to score points with the rhetorically challenged, critical-thinking-impaired bots of the world. Responses to your post by other users are not censorship. But you know that, and you're pretty much just whining. Have a nice day!