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No, they totally charge you +$100 for windows, for otherwise identical machines. E.g. https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpadt/thinkpad-t14-g1/
by Groxx 5y ago
No, they totally charge you +$100 for windows, for otherwise identical machines. E.g.
https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpadt/thinkpad-t14-g1/22tpt14t4n1#models https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpadt/th...
Which is less than the $140 that Microsoft charges for Win 10 Home, but it's still substantial: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/b/windows https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/b/windows
Really, why wouldn't they? If you can't get it cheaper, they have no reason to sell it cheaper. Easy profit.
- tomnipotent 5y agoCompanies are not buying machines this way, but through resellers with drastically different pricing models (even CDNow). Outside of Office 365, I have never paid more than 50-75% MSRP for a Microsoft product using a corp reseller account, including SQL Server licenses.
- Groxx 5y agoThis is a thread about the cost of gaming computers, on an article about Steam games on Linux. I don't think business-targeted sales are particularly in-scope. And even if they are, that only makes it worse, as it implies they're getting an even more significant profit margin.