Date: Tue, 09 Jun 1998 19:18:08 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@HiWAAY.net> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dell 8) Message-ID: <199806100018.TAA19147@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from Bill Paul <wpaul@freebsd.org> of "Tue, 09 Jun 1998 12:05:47 PDT." <199806091905.MAA11228@hub.freebsd.org>
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Bill Paul writes: > How did you determine this? My impression is that they always let you > buy machines without Lose95/LoseNT, but only if you place the order by > phone and explicitly instruct the salesdroid not to include it with the > purchase, not if you try to buy something off their 'online store' on > their web server. Go to www.dell.com, select their online store, then > choose a system type at random and try to customize it. Scroll down to > the 'Operating System' selection and check the choices they offer. Recently I had occasion to be studying Gateway's "server" offerings on their online web store. An operating system was not included. Presumed (didn't check, wasn't interested) to be an extra cost item. There *was* an OS pop up menu to choose from. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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