On 03/22/2010 10:33 PM, Mike Edenfield wrote:
On 3/22/2010 3:40 PM, Mick wrote:
On Monday 22 March 2010 19:21:26 KH wrote:
Am 22.03.2010 20:17, schrieb Mick:
TBH, I wouldn't pay money for it but as many OEM impose a MSWindows tax
on all of us I had no other option if I wanted to buy this particular
laptop.
You can refuse the license agreement and give windows back. If you are
lucky, the vendor will give you some money back.
Getting money back from Dell?!! It'll be like squeezing blood out of a
stone. ;-)
Seriously though, I've asked them to take it off for me and they said that
this is "not an option"!
Particularly annoying is the fact that Dell claims to be "Linux
friendly". Which is apparently shorthand for:
"Sure, we'll happily sell you one of three crappy laptop models with
Ubuntu pre-installed, at a slight discount, while bombarding you with
'Dell Recommends Windows' ads while you shop. What's that? You want a
desktop machine with Linux? Are you insane?"
Dell mainly sells "Windows Computers", not "Computers". If someone
doesn't like that, why buy one? There's a gazillion of e-shops selling
custom machines.
