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But you still end up paying for a windows license? Perhaps my biggest reason for buying a mac was that there were no ultraportables without the windows tax. In
by akkartik 16y ago
But you still end up paying for a windows license? Perhaps my biggest reason for buying a mac was that there were no ultraportables without the windows tax. In fact, I don't want to have to install linux on my laptop first thing.
Also, Sony's 'fresh start' pay-us-to-not-install-crap-maybe-sometimes option really rubs me the wrong way.
I looked into it out of curiousity, and the configs are indeed nice, but buy Sony? Ick.
- Zak 16y agoEffectively, all the crap you have to pay them not to install subsidizes your Windows tax. I'm with you in principle, but if they were willing to sell computers with no OS on them, they wouldn't be cheaper.
- akkartik 16y ago1. I wasn't really concerned about price. I don't think the original poster is either. 2. I don't give a rats ass why things are the way they are. (I know why.) I'm the consumer, dammit. And this is my cathartic whiny-complaining thread, dammit.