Dell Now Selling Ubuntu Mini 9's ~CHEAPER~ than Windows Versions

[earthpigg]

check for yourself here! (http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/laptop-inspiron-9?c=us&cs=19&l=en&ref=hmpgwn1&s=dhs)

there it is folks. Dell is know doing, essentially, exactly what a lot of the community has been asking for.

+1 for them.

next question: can people that already pre-ordered get the price difference back??

EDIT: Can a mod please change the of the thread to read:


Dell Now Selling Ubuntu Mini 9's with Identical Hardware ~CHEAPER~ than Windows Versions

the 'identical hardware' part is what is significant about this, and i totally forgot to include it in thread title lol....

EDIT 2: Please look closely at the gigantic red circles and arrows in the attachment before you say the hardware isn't identical :)

[NintendoTogepi]

Alright, I'm planning on getting one of these soon! :D

Nice to have a 40 dollar discount!

[ELD]

Uh i am the only one who sees the hardware is not identical at all?

If you actually read it you will even see dell says this
"More memory and Storage! Includes Windows XP"

Apart from the obvious fact the ram and hardrive are smaller on the linux box.

So no they are not identical.

[Sealbhach]

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[kernelhaxor]

I saw that discount even the previous time I checked tht page .. Its been there since a while now I think (I know initially there used to be no price difference)

when did u order urs?

[kernelhaxor]

Look at the size of the drive and RAM. Not the same hardware.


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Nope, its the same hardware, infact the same system tht we r talking abt ..
chk the screenshot posted above ..

[ELD]

Nope, its the same hardware, infact the same system tht we r talking abt ..
chk the screenshot posted above ..

After looking more closely it is actually cheaper, the layout confused me a bit.
Look at the one to the furthest right:
Windows XP is: $449
Ubuntu is: $409

[Sealbhach]

After looking more closely it is actually cheaper, the layout confused me a bit.
Look at the one to the furthest right:
Windows XP is: $449
Ubuntu is: $409

Oh yeah, "Build yours with Ubuntu".

My mistake. This is good!!!!

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[ELD]

Pitty the options for the UK are rather...crap.

[bash]

That layout is really confusing. Took me about 3 Minutes to figure it out. They should just rename the top button to "Build yours with Windows for ...".

[earthpigg]

Pitty the options for the UK are rather...crap.

hopefully, they are just testing waters here in the states prior to implementing it worldwide... ive been watching their US site pretty close, and small changes for the better have been happening pretty frequently.... the display model picture got changed to have the default Dell Ubuntu desktop, for example :)

[samjh]

Terrible page design.

But good news for Ubuntu (and Linux at large). :)

[davidw89]

Oh wow the Windows version has twice as much RAM and storage..

[eentonig]

Nope, its the same hardware, infact the same system tht we r talking abt ..
chk the screenshot posted above ..

I'm sorry to say so, but your English is terrible. Please try to write at least full sentences (if not 'words'), so people who are not fluent in English can at least have a chance in understanding what you want to say.