I actually called Dell Customer Service last summer about purchasing a desktop with no OS. After harassing a few employees and getting to a supervisor, I got the answer of no, they will not sell a computer without Windows, UNLESS I was making a large multi-computer order, in which case they may consider selling me a computer without Windows.
Their excuse for not selling me a computer without Windows was that they needed the windows OS for hardware testing before it left their plant.
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I actually called Dell Customer Service last summer about purchasing a desktop with no OS. After harassing a few employees and getting to a supervisor, I got the answer of no, they will not sell a computer without Windows, UNLESS I was making a large multi-computer order, in which case they may consider selling me a computer without Windows.
Their excuse for not selling me a computer without Windows was that they needed the windows OS for hardware testing before it left their plant.