I have no reason to believe that TigerDirect is taking a loss. Just as I have no reason to believe these rumors. My point was not about the dollar amount; it was that this is all fuzzy information that is correct, imprecise or completely false. I would say the odds of it being the ladder two are much greater then the first. If you want to disagree, please send me a link to a TigerDirect page selling Windows XP for $50 to Lindows users.
How can you guess that $40 is the price TigerDirect is paying for these things when they are not even selling them? Given that a sales price has not been set by TigerDirect, any dollar amount rumored in this deal would refear to the price TigerDirect is paying for each copy.
You may not know this, but when Dell or HP install Windows XP on a new computer they don't go to Best Buy and buy the retail Full version of Windows. They buy something called an OEM version, which runs about $50 for Home and $120 for Pro (I know, I have bought OEM versions for computers I have built). So your statement "I want to see what happens when the large OEMs demand the same pricing" is rather silly.
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I have no reason to believe that TigerDirect is taking a loss. Just as I have no reason to believe these rumors. My point was not about the dollar amount; it was that this is all fuzzy information that is correct, imprecise or completely false. I would say the odds of it being the ladder two are much greater then the first. If you want to disagree, please send me a link to a TigerDirect page selling Windows XP for $50 to Lindows users.
How can you guess that $40 is the price TigerDirect is paying for these things when they are not even selling them? Given that a sales price has not been set by TigerDirect, any dollar amount rumored in this deal would refear to the price TigerDirect is paying for each copy.
You may not know this, but when Dell or HP install Windows XP on a new computer they don't go to Best Buy and buy the retail Full version of Windows. They buy something called an OEM version, which runs about $50 for Home and $120 for Pro (I know, I have bought OEM versions for computers I have built). So your statement "I want to see what happens when the large OEMs demand the same pricing" is rather silly.