From: "Rich Gauszka" 

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,132216-c,linux/article.html
Dell Inc. will officially launch its first three consumer PCs running the
Ubuntu 7.04 Linux OS on Thursday, two desktops and an Inspiron E1505n
notebook PC.

The new models give buyers a third choice when shopping for a PC at Dell: a
machine with Windows installed, a machine with no OS, on which they can
install one of their choice, and now a machine with Ubuntu Linux already
installed. Other PC makers, including Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) and Lenovo
Group Ltd. also sell PCs that run Linux, but mainly on customized machines,
because retail demand for the open-source OS is tiny compared to that for
Windows.

The PCs will be available in the U.S. after 4 p.m. Central Time from Dell's
Web site at http://www.dell.com/open. The laptop starts at US$599, while
the two desktops, the Dimension E520 and XPS 410n, start from $599 and $849
each, respectively. A comparable XPS 410 with Windows Vista Premium costs
$899.

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