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

[Jay Sulzberger]

On Sun, 7 Jan 2007, R. Drew Davis wrote:

> 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

Yes, Dell does not sell home machines without a Microsoft OS
already loaded.

Anyone on this list may call Dell and ask for such a machine.
After the answer, the facts of the case will be known.

oo--JS.