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On Thu, Jun 25 2015, Mick wrote: |
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> On Thursday 25 Jun 2015 16:06:31 Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>> On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 10:36:36 -0400, gottlieb@×××.edu wrote: |
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>> > > The XPS 13 at least is available as a "Developer Edition" that comes |
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>> > > with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS instead of Windows. |
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>> > I "dual boot" windows and gentoo. The quotes are there since my current |
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>> > machine (3 years old) has never been in windows post-installation. The |
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>> > advantage of having windows available occurs if you need dell |
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>> > maintenance. |
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>> Which is a rather poor reason for keeping Windows around. The Ubuntu |
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>> version is not significantly cheaper, but it would make dealing with |
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>> support that much easier if the machine was supposed to have Linux on it |
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>> in the first place. |
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> When I bought my 16" XPS Ubuntu was definitely not available and when I asked |
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> (repeatedly) I was told that if I wanted a Linux OS I would have to buy a |
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> cheaper laptop that came with Ubuntu. They were also adamant in their very |
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> polite Indian accent that the only OS that came with the laptop I wanted was |
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> MSWindows 7 and they would not sell it without an OS. |
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> Of course if you are a big corporate customer they will be more accomodating, |
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> but in my case they were reading off a script with any option available for |
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> me, as long as it was exactly what was shown on the Dell website. :-p |
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Interesting. When I just now logged into dell.com I could find the |
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latitude 7450 with 16GB RAM and 500GB SSD. But ubunto was *not* there |
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and neither was a 1920x1080 non-touch screen. Indeed many fewer options |
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that when I logged in premier.dell.com and went to the same laptop. |
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