[nylug-talk] Dell Linux survey

[alex at pilosoft.com]

On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Jay Sulzberger wrote:

> Alex, please tell me whether you got twenty nineteen inch flat panels
> displays with the shipment of hardware you told me about a few weeks
> ago.  If you did not, then you paid more for the twenty boxes with no
> Microsoft OS than you would have paid for the same hardware with a
> Microsoft OS installed.
I did not, because I don't need the monitors.

With all due respect, if you know me, you'd know there's absolutely no 
chance of me paying a cent more than I absolutely have to, whether or not 
it includes an OS.

> Alex, if you wish to spend the thirty hours needed to do a price
> comparison of Dell boxes with a Microsoft OS vs the same boxes I should
> be delighted to study your findings.  Every time I have done the
> comparison, the Microsoft loaded boxes cost less.
I did. You didn't. Look at the archives. 

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-alex