Subject: Re: Another: can't *not* buy Win95 on Dell or Gateway
Ted Kircher (kircher@realtime.com)
Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 23:19:18
Message-Id: <3.0.5.16.19980504231918.10df997c@realtime.com> Date: Mon, 04 May 1998 23:19:18 To: roundtable@cni.org From: Ted Kircher <kircher@realtime.com> Subject: Re: Another: can't *not* buy Win95 on Dell or Gateway In-Reply-To: <9805051324.AA18420@a.cni.org> References: <354E73E9.6B490FA7@cptech.org>
On 5/5/98, Harry Hochheiser <harry@tigger.jvnc.net> wrote:
>
> What's needed here would seem to be some investigative reporting:
> Suppose someone went to a large mail-order house and tried to buy 100
> Pentium II's, with some fairly powerful configuration, coming to roughly
> $2K/machine. Then, they'd go back to that vendor, asking for the same
> machines bare. Would the vendor be able to do this? If so,would the
> quotes be on the order of $100 less for each machine? What about if the
> order was for 50 machines, or 500?
Harry, I agree that it would be great if someone could get *any*
system manufacturer (HITW or large) to respond to the cost tradeoffs
of guaranteeing a naked system, i.e. w/o an installed operating system.
Let me add that to test the system, the manufacturer would have to load
and then upload an operating system - and this has cost something.
PS: I still feel (admittedly do not fully understand the cost tradeoffs)
that getting Microsoft to validate an operating system transfer is
a better option.
Ted Kircher
Information Age Consulting ("Exploiting Technology for Society")
6618 Lost Horizon Drive, Austin, TX 78759-6117, USA, 512-335-1149
<kircher@realtime.com>
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