Windoze refund (was: RE: [wplug] Laptop Criteria)

[John Strange]

I doubt you'll ever find a large tier one that offers linux on all their
machines, it's just too much for them to do in a market that is cut
throat.  Dell is the #1 tier 1 computer manufacturer for a reason.

On Fri, 2003-05-02 at 00:05, Steve Kudlak wrote:
> SOunds pretty impressive. I dunno if Dell with all
> their commercials will build a good Linux system
> for someone who asks for it. It would be cute to answer
> that cute commercial with the tag line of: "Hi this is Dell
> what can we build for you today?" by having someone
> answer "A Linux system for publication and graphics".
> I will leave out the part about "Somthing my printer
> (you know the humans that help  your publish on a large
> scale) will believe in.
> 
> Have Fun,
> Sends Steve
> 
> "Vanco, Donald" wrote:
> 
> > John Harrold wrote:
> > > Sometime in May Vanco, Donald assaulted the keyboard and produced:
> > >
> > >> John Harrold wrote:
> > >>>> Sometime in April Vanco, Donald assaulted the keyboard and
> > >>>>    produced: My current laptop was a real compromise - only one
> > >>>> PCMCIA (I routinely need 2), no floppy, no serial, but @$$ kicking
> > >>>> graphics & display, a 2.4GHz P4 and a boatload of RAM for $1300
> > >>>> and my WinXP refund from Dell.
> > >>
> > >>> how hard was it to get the refund and how much did you get?
> > >> See:
> > >> http://tinyurl.com/aqrp
> > >>      ...plus an additional $50 here http://tinyurl.com/aqrv
> > >
> > > so you got ~150.00, color me impressed.
> >
> >         I was pretty happy, but then read the sobering comments by the site
> > admin.  He makes some valid points - a small victory for me, but overall the
> > result really doesn't do anything for the "equality fight" with OEMs.  I
> > figure Dell is just giving the $100 refunds to shut folks up - I suppose in
> > a perfect world they'd get annoyed by it and at least offer a "No OS" option
> > on home systems, but I'm sure their agreement with Microsoft won't allow
> > that to happen easily.
> >         Equally amazed by the number of folks clamoring to buy the virus on
> > eBay - I saw similar copies go for >$70 - I was frankly surprised that mine
> > closed so low.  Still, 150 shekels is a lot of wings @ Hooters.
> >         ....and yes - I really did nuke the install of WindozeXP that came
> > on the laptop.  It's been running Gentoo (and nothing but) since the second
> > time I booted it.
> >
> > Don
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