From: "John Beamish" 

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.

If that $25 really made a difference then hundreds of thousands of Linux
(you choose the distro) machines would be walking off the shelves and
appearing in homes and under Christmas trees.

I know of *one* non-techie person who has a Linux machine.  I know several
who have Macs and I know loads who have Windows.  (I also know of one or
two who have have OS/2 ;-) )


On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 22:43:28 -0500, Geo  wrote:

> "John Beamish"  wrote in message
> news:op.tkmsjyium6tn4t{at}dellblack.wlfdle.phub.net.cable.rogers.com...
>
>> Cheaper OS?  JQP doesn't buy the OS, he buys the hw/sw package from
>> Dell,
>> BestBuy, etc. and Dell, BestBuy, HP aren't going to push Linux because
>> there's no incentive for them to do that.
>
> Yes there is, as computers go below the $500 mark the cost of Windows is
> very significant. As they drop below $300 it will become impossible to
> compete with Linux based systems. and JQP is very very good at shopping,
> that's why winmodems because the norm.
>
> Geo.
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