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>the difference between a machine with or without OS would be 10-15 dollars This used to be true, but microsoft upped the oem price of windows quite a bit sinc
by rm999 14y ago
>the difference between a machine with or without OS would be 10-15 dollars
This used to be true, but microsoft upped the oem price of windows quite a bit since Windows 7. The estimates I've heard are closer to 50-70 dollars.
This article doesn't contain a number, but in it a director at dell claims the price went up for windows 7: http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=15177 http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=15177
- gambiting 14y agoMaybe,but then the manufacturers also get money for including additional software(like Norton or McAfee) so in the end the difference between the laptop with Windows and without it might be nill. And Microsoft actually makes Windows cheaper if a manufacturer includes Office Trial edition, as a kind of advertisement.