From: "Geo." 

"John Beamish"  wrote in message
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> Except that the Windows tax at the Dell/HP/etc. level is trivial ($10-$25)
> especially wrt entry level "home" OSes.  At that point it
becomes a case
> of "an extra $25 for a machine with Windows?  Sure, why
not."  JQP doesn't
> see any difference between Windows Home and Windows "All the
> functionality" since they don't know and don't care about the
> functionality.

When you buy a computer, your cost for windows is way more than $25. Just
price the difference between XPhome and XPpro on identical hardware (you
can do that at the dell or hp websites).

Geo.

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