New Linux Notebooks and Desktops From Dell For Emerging Markets
Friday August 29, 2008
The new computers feature Ubuntu Linux and have been designed specifically for organizations in emerging markets. The focus is on affordability and maintainability. For example, they take advantage of integrated graphics capabilities of Intel processors and do not provide options for more advanced graphics systems. In India the A840 laptop computer with a Celeron 560 processor will be offered for about 22,000 rupees (US $522).
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$522 for a laptop with a free operating system? My last catalog from Dell offers a laptop that include Vista Home Basic for $499. Are we not to notice such things? Seems like the profit realized from Vista is tacked onto the cost of the Linux laptop. Does it cost more to build a basic laptop that uses Linus more than it does to build a laptop that uses Vista? Whatever happened to that $150 laptop another vendor was to be making by now?
A price difference of at least $300 would be acceptable to me. Consider all the licensed software to be replaced by everything free.