[mdlug] Dell's blog video about new consumer Linux systems

[Jeff Hanson]

On 5/29/07, Morris, Tim <tmorris at ugs.com> wrote:
> Unfortunately, it appears you're still paying for the Vista license. I
> did 2 (almost) completely identical configurations (1.73GHz, 2GB RAM,
> 120GB HDD, 8x DVD-Burner, 2 year support) and the final price is exactly
> the same.

Not according to this:
arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070525-windows-tax-is-50-according-to-dell-linux-pc-pricing.html
www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS5465909777.html

> I love that they are starting to offer Linux, but I would have thought
> the price would be a little lower than the Vista counterpart.
> There is one difference between the laptops that may account for it:
> The Linux system has a GFGo 7300 graphics card, while the Vista system
> has an ATI X1300. The ATI card is the only option for the Vista system,
> so a proper comparison is not possible. I'm a little rusty when it comes
> to mobile video cards, but I seem to remember the benchmarks of the
> cards being pretty close. Am I wrong?

Some benchmarks:
www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-Go-7300.2145.0.html

> Whatever happened to that drive to unify notebooks (just like desktops)
> so you could buy a mobile component from the store and pop it into any
> laptop?  Ahhh... Wouldn't that be nice!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MXM
www.mxm-upgrade.com