[nylug-talk] How to get a Windows tax refund

[R. Drew Davis]

On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 15:26 -0500, Jay Sulzberger wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 6 Jan 2007, Gregg Levine wrote:

> Hello!
> Well done Jay. However that does not cover one unique issue. Dell does
> indeed sell a no OS machine. You just need to insist on asking for it.
> Its a specie of Dell Dimension that's currently available. There was
> an entry for it in Linux Journal sometime last year.

I've never had any luck in past attempts to find the no-os offerings for
Dell starting from Dell's home page.   The URL that gets me there though
is:  http://www.dell.com/nseries

$52.50 off a sale price on some conventional Dell offering is probably a
better deal.   The window for returning an nseries machine for a refund
is much smaller than the window for returning a conventional Dell
machine (but, wow, you need to wade through some fine print to discover
that factoid).   Except for some workstation models, they aren't
preloading Linux nor are they representing that Linux will work on them
without your having to perhaps sweat over finding the right drivers.
Total value added = $0.00 for the nseries, in my opinion.

Drew