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$50 to Get XP On a New Dell

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the paying-more-for-less dept.

CWmike writes "Dell will charge customers up to $50 for factory-installed Windows XP on some PCs after Wednesday, according to the company's Web site. Buyers of the low-priced Vostro line of desktops and notebooks will pay $20 to $50 more for Windows XP Professional installed as a 'downgrade' from Windows Vista Business or Vista Ultimate than they would for Vista only."

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  1. Re:Wasting money by Sun.Jedi · · Score: 0, Troll

    Look, I know xp is what everyone wants, but it should be obvious that the days are numbered for this company. There. Fixed that.
    +5 flaimbate.
  2. Re:Downgrade? by AndrewNeo · · Score: 0, Troll

    Can you please list all this "DRM crap" that comes with Vista? I'm being serious, I want to know what you think it is.
    Because Protected Video Path only gets put into use with HD-DVD or Blu-Ray content.

  3. Re:It's Twitter, Slashdot Duped Again! by Odder · · Score: 0, Troll

    Somehow, the Vista failure log is on topic. I can't put my finger on it. Oh yeah, people paying for the most expensive version of Vista and then another $50 just to avoid Vista. Vista avoidance as a profit center is not what M$ had in mind here.

  4. Re:It's like divorce by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 0, Troll

    Windows users don't see crashes, this is not the Win9x kernel era, the 'Windows crashes all the time' myth crap needs to stop once and for all...


    Chill. Do you work on the Windows development team or do you work in PR?

    Anyways, the thread's OP is saying Windows crashes ~10% of the time, which is fairly accurate, actually. Windows 9x crashed at least 30-50% of the time. No, I'm not exaggerating.

    I've seen many, many XP and 200x Server crashes (I'm a sysadmin), and probably only 25% of those were due to hardware.

    By comparison, I've seen Linux and HP-UX, Solaris and AIX servers with uptimes measured in years.

    So I'd say you probably have no idea what you're talking about.

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