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Originally Posted by whytheheckme
EVERYTHING will be cheaper, without that nice hefty M$ price tag on top. Dell's lower models' (desktops) price tags are half (or more!) Windows! Watch out! Cheap computers are soon to come!
Jacob
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Dell's cheapest (that I could find) PC is $359 with Vista Home Basic. The OEM cost of Vista Home Basic (from newegg) is $95, so only about 1/4 of the cost. However, Dell sells in much higher volume and would get windows for a much better price then you can buy on newegg. Also, Dell bundles many applications with their PCs. Each company probably pays Dell to bundle their program, otherwise Dell wouldn't do it.
Overall, I bet it costs Dell nothing for Windows.
It's unlikely that Dell could get any money for bundling applications with Linux. They also have to spend a significant amount of time and money in testing and all the other facets of starting to install Linux.
I doubt that when they do start shipping Linux PCs, they will be any cheaper then Windows PCs and quite possibly be more expensive.
(typed on a Dell Laptop running Ubuntu)