Story: Dell charges UK a premium for Linux PCs

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This article is plain wrong about the Vista comparison

Not only are the US PCs cheaper, but the UK Vista PCs are also arguably cheaper than the Ubuntu ones.

The article's error hinges on the phrase "the only difference being the graphics card". That's a posh £94 graphics card which adds 25% to the Windows PC price. Using the basic graphics option on the windows PC and the most basic graphics option available on the Ubuntu PC (a much cheaper card) the prices are as follows (at the time of writing):

Ubuntu: £416.61
Windows Home Basic: £362.49

So the PC with the operating system that retails at £149.69 (amazon) turns out to be over £50 more expensive than the PC with the free OS.

How can Linux PCs become popular when it's cheaper to buy a Windows PC, remove Windows, and stick Linux on it? I would have thought that would be a newsworthy story, but you're just towing the Windows line.

Go figure (and get your facts right in future).

Dave

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