From: "Randy H" 

      (From the article:)

      HP Bundles AMD-Linux For Presario At Desi Price

      Indranil Chakraborty

      Kolkata:  Welcome to New Year’s Diwali sale — Hewlett-Packard is
slashing the price of its Compaq Presario home PC using a combination of
AMD processors and Linux operating system (OS), thus also striking another
blow at the dominance of Wintel in the Indian market.

      For PC users, the savings are huge: a branded MNC PC for Rs 30,990,
against the current Presario price of Rs 39,990 based on Wintel or
Microsoft ’s Windows OS and Intel chip.

      For the Presario, which has a very high brand recall because of its
sleek design and unique black and silver colours as against the usual white
PCs, it will be the lowest price in its history. In fact, it will be the
lowest price ever for a branded PC offered by a multinational.

      The carbon black/ silver Presario will have AMD Athlon XP 1800+ 1.5
GHz processor with Red Hat Linux OS. The same Presario with Intel’s P4 1.6
Ghz chip and Windows XP home comes with a price tag of around Rs 40,000.

      The AMD-Linux Presario will have a 40gb HDD, 128 DDR SDRAM with 48X
CD-ROM drive, 56 Kbps data/fax modem and integrated 10/100 network interface card.

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"Gregg Nemesure"  wrote in message
news:3e14fde6{at}w3.nls.net...
> "Randy H"  wrote in message
> news:3e14fb8f{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>
> > Makes me wonder who pockets what of that almost 25% upcharge for the
> > MS OS-especially when you consider the OEM is usually the one who gets
> > stuck having to support the OS....
>
>
> How do you get 25%?
>
>    (39,990 - 30,990) / 30,990 = 29%
>
> Anyway, is the operating system the only thing different between the two
> systems?
>
> --
> Gregg
>
>


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