Harish Pillay found this out by actually trying to buy a Dell laptop with Ubuntu installed. He had actually done this before, purchasing a Dell Vostro V13-N series laptop with Ubuntu. However, this time the N-series was nowhere to be seen and a Live Chat was required to get a Windows-less laptop. What follows is a transcript of the chat he had with a Dell representative in case you ever want to do the same. What’s interesting to note here is the difference in price including Windows makes. Without Microsoft’s operating system the final laptop price is $887.15. With Windows that balloons up to $1,045.79.

And why do Dell not advertise Windows-less laptops? It seems this is simply a case os stopping customer confusion as many visitors to the Dell website search for the cheapest laptop. That will always end up being one without Windows installed, but the user doesn’t realize the cheap laptop they selected has no operating system.

16:59:32 Dell Rep we do have regular request for n-series of system from time by time 17:00:20 Dell Rep we do not offer is sometimes to avoid misunderstanding from certain customers where they look for the cheapest system and only to find out that no OS was installed 17:00:33 harish pillay and I want to make it a permanent request and something that I can find from your online catalog. As long as it does not appear, I think Dell is doing the whole world a disservice and pandering to Microsoft’s monopolistic heavyhand. I imagine that Dell Corp. Sees its customers as non-techies and wants their computers from Dell to work completely in the environment the user chooses. (also non-technical) I also imagine that Dell is trying hard to minimize service calls and returns. A total unknown risk with Linux. Further I imagine that Dell has Windows driver requirements from its vendors that insure that everything works when assembled in a laptop or tower computer.

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Not possible with Linux. It’s all about: minimize costs, maximize revenues. Using the 80/20 rule, it’s obvious why Dell features Windows computers and tries to ignore non-Windows. Network Topology Mapper Keygen Torrent. I wish it weren’t so but it is.