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Vendors, laptops and Linux

Posted Mar 5, 2007 15:43 UTC (Mon) by tjc (subscriber, #137)
In reply to: Vendors, laptops and Linux by smoogen
Parent article: Major systems vendors and Linux

The money margins are not there. Most low-end notebooks make their costs off of the rebate Microsoft pays vendors to install the OS.

I didn't know that. So if I buy an hp for $500, Windows is not adding to the cost, it's reducing the cost? I guess Windows is useful after all. :-)

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Posted Mar 5, 2007 16:30 UTC (Mon) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]

Well, technically it's the lamers that see an icon for AOL on their new desktop and sign up for it that are reducing your cost. Windows just enables their money to travel through AOL, through Dell, to you.

If this business model is to be attempted under Linux, it will be Linspire that tries it first. :)