This isn't new, the German computer assemblers Maxdata having been doing this for sometime, offering Dr Dos with their machines with the understanding no one will install and therefore no-one will ask for support. The difference? well Maxdata dont charge you the same. you get approx 80 quid off the price, which can only mean one thing,
Dell and Microsoft have agreed this marketing strategy to direct market sales to those of us who dont like to think any money has gone to the every growing bank of Microsoft. Maybe Dell are sitting there with a bigger margin, maybe they are buying licences and a re filling a massive warehouse full of MS OS media, who cares. Theres no benefit of buying a dell machine if the cost is the same, Id much prefer to have the MS software at the same price so i can make myself smile as i throw the CD against the wall and watch £90 quid shatter into thousands of pieces across the floor.
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This isn't new, the German computer assemblers Maxdata having been doing this for sometime, offering Dr Dos with their machines with the understanding no one will install and therefore no-one will ask for support. The difference? well Maxdata dont charge you the same. you get approx 80 quid off the price, which can only mean one thing,
Dell and Microsoft have agreed this marketing strategy to direct market sales to those of us who dont like to think any money has gone to the every growing bank of Microsoft. Maybe Dell are sitting there with a bigger margin, maybe they are buying licences and a re filling a massive warehouse full of MS OS media, who cares. Theres no benefit of buying a dell machine if the cost is the same, Id much prefer to have the MS software at the same price so i can make myself smile as i throw the CD against the wall and watch £90 quid shatter into thousands of pieces across the floor.
But then im unstable.