Dell Offering OS-Free Laptop?

[PV5150]

In a surprise move by Dell, it seems that they are finally listening to their end users requests to have the option of more machines without operating systems, along with a plan to reduce the amount of pre-installed software on its other systems.

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[Jim]

Blimey. "I'll take a Dell with an AMD chip and a copy of Windows not pre-load with all Dell's usual crap please."

[Rastalovich]

Dell`s cs in the states has been known to send out upgrade OS cd/packages for free. Depends who u speak to their end I guess.

[equk]

Originally Posted by name='PV5150'

In a surprise move by Dell, it seems that they are finally listening to their end users requests to have the option of more machines without operating systems, along with a plan to reduce the amount of pre-installed software on its other systems.

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Hmm

How much cheaper is it, I thought xp home OEM was only like £30 or something

Also for the pre-installed software, just format the drive and start again using the cdkey on the pc/laptop

I will be surprised if they do linux pre-installed as so many people don't know anything about it and will undoubtedly be phoning dell support every 5minutes

Sounds like they might charge customers for linux tho? can they legally do that? I'm pretty sure the time it would take is minutes as they would use disk images rather than running thru the installer.

lol at the title of the other news article tho

$60 to keep crapware off of a Windows PC?

crapware?

Is this only a rumor atm tho?

[PV5150]

Originally Posted by name='equk'

Also for the pre-installed software, just format the drive and start again using the cdkey on the pc/laptop

Agreed

Originally Posted by name='equk'

Sounds like they might charge customers for linux tho? can they legally do that? I'm pretty sure the time it would take is minutes as they would use disk images rather than running thru the installer.

I wouldn't have thought so under the open source agreement. Unless they installed a commercial version, perhaps.

Originally Posted by name='equk'

lol at the title of the other news article tho

Yeah I thought that the 'crapware' inclusion was quite amusing too

Originally Posted by name='equk'

Is this only a rumor atm tho?

It appears wholly speculative. But, reading between the lines I'd like to think that there is a considerable amount of truth to it.

[llwyd]

smart move tbh. I just reformatted our dell for the first time and it is so much nicer without all the pre loaded tat it had on it initially

[PP Mguire]

IMO Dells suck becasue of that loaded crap. If Dells did give the option of offering hardware with a clean HD i would have alot more respect for them.