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Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
- Subject: Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
- From: "sands-of-iowa" <sands@cableone.com>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 07:33:41 -0500
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but if you use windows a Pc maker can not use ANY OTHER OS
or they lose their lic. from microsoft that why Gateway owns Amiga
you do not put out an Amiga computer because they would lose Windows..
Dave R. wrote in message ...
>On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, James Alexander wrote:
>
>> gigahertz processor systems aren't readily available yet. oh and don't
>> forget, where I live, retail on windows is $300 by itself. Are you
really so
>> STUPID to believe any vendor will sell you windows and give you the
hardware
>> on which to run it for FREE?
>
>A vendor, however, will be paying for OEM Windows, not retail. The OEM
>version is usually much cheaper, but with stricter licensing (i.e. must be
>sold with a computer, can't be installed on another PC, etc.). So, figure
>US$50-$75 for Windows, maybe even less.
>