Comments on: Humour: Ubuntu is Costlier than Microsoft Windows XP

By: kulbirsaini

kulbirsaini — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 08:26:19 +0000

lol! You will fool dell easily this way 😀

By: Joe Buck

Joe Buck — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

McAfee actually PAYS Dell to put the 30-day trial on their box. It’s essentially an ad, so when the 30 days are up people buy from them and not a competitor.

Adobe Reader is a free download for Linux.

The Dell Windows box also has other “free trial” software, as well as things that are basically ads. The crapware vendors give Dell so much money that it basically pays for the OEM Windows license.

And that’s why you won’t save money by saying you want Linux, or no OS at all. The net cost to Dell is near-zero.

By: sashidhar

sashidhar — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

@Joe cool bit of find! I never really knew there was so much into the “free stuff” which came with my dell lappy 😀 If this is the case, we should have an option of adding more crapware in the “Configure Myself” section so that we can get Vista Ultimate rather than Home Premium. We can always uninstall all the crap once we get the machine!!

By: Rome

Rome — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

You should also look at this option
http://www.acer.com/aspireone/

The Acer One cost about $329 and upgrading it to 1GB of MB shouldn’t cost to much of anything now a days.

By: Anonymouse

Anonymouse — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I would buy the windows version and sell the disk, install ubuntu,ditch the 8 gig on ebay for a 32 or 64 gig runcore pro and walk away happy.(and pretty much upgraded for free.