From: "Geo." 

$1500 for the laptop configured my way. Not bad.

Geo.

"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in
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> 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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