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Turns Out Ubuntu Dell Costs $225 More

Posted by kdawson on from the implemented-and-reneged dept.

An anonymous reader writes "One week ago this community discussed the apparent price advantage of Ubuntu Dell over Vista. The article linked to a Dell IdeaStorm page with the status: 'Implemented.' Today the status has changed on that page to 'Reneged: Ubuntu Dell is $225 More Than Windows Dell.' The full price of a Ubuntu Inspiron 1420N is indeed $50 cheaper than the identical hardware configuration with Vista — except that a $275 free upgrade to 2GB memory and a 160-GB hard drive is available for Windows only."

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  1. Productization and Marketing by PowerEdge · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Has anyone considered that the incessant whining and gimme gimme gimme attitude of the linux community as a whole is not good for the cause of open source? Try chaging the tone. Understand that it might take a while for a new product line to be available to all the marketing opportunities of the rest of business. It's called segmentation and that's that. There is no evil sly hand of Microsoft at work here. Just paranoia amongst a whole bunch of people who probably haven't even entertained the thought of buying a Dell system with Ubuntu on it. If the demand is strong enough the market will be made. Don't expect to get too far with negativity though. At least Dell is offering it now. Can't say the same about all the other Tier 1 OEMs. Perhaps all the energy whining about Dell's offering should be spent and directed at Toshiba, HP, Acer et al for not offering it yet. When they start offering it, perhaps there will be COMPETITION amongst vendors and all the benefits that come to the consumer with said competition. Until then, it's all a bunch of empty whining to me.

  2. Re:Just buy it with Vista (XP would be better) by Ignignoc · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    last time i checked i could buy an apple without osx or a sun box without solaris. why not just be upfront with your intentions and state that you want linux to dominate like windows has so the countless linux users can finally have bragging rights. the hard truth is linux will never take over desktops. possibly in third world countries that can't afford to purchase retail OS's - but thats about it.