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Your experience coincides with Microsoft's new series of commercials where they give a person a fixed budget for a laptop: http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.co

• SwellJoe 18y ago
  Yeah, I saw that ad a while back, as someone linked it here at HN. That ad didn't influence my decision to check prices at Dell. Though I was deeply disappointed to note that Dell imposes a Linux tax. The version of pretty much all of their laptops with Ubuntu cost sometimes hundreds more (they just don't go on sale, so the special deals that Dell always has running don't apply). So, I'll take the Windows and install Linux on it myself. For slightly less nice build quality the Studio 15 from Dell can be had for another couple hundred bucks cheaper (it added up to $1086 with almost the exact same specs). I decided that thinner and lighter was worth the extra money for me (and the Mini 9 for $50 with the Latitude was a pretty big draw...I love little machines, and the screen and RAM on my OLPC isn't quite big enough to actually use for even on-the-train development or catching up).