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Ask HN: Why the $200 Overhead on Dell XPS Laptops with Linux?

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Re: Ask HN: Why the $200 Overhead on Dell XPS Laptops with Linux?

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Post by sofixa »

vagrantJin wrote: post #98
sofixa wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you like the taste but don't want the negative parts, or if you don't want alcohol but want to feel "included" ( e.g. muslims, recovering alcoholics or just people who don't like getting "buzzed").

Included? If you've made the choice to not drink, is the next logical step to buy a non-alcoholic alcoholic beverage? Seems a bit more than silly.

If you're with a group of people who drink alcoholic beverages, and you want to fit it, a non-alcoholic beer is probably better than a juice.

Re: Ask HN: Why the $200 Overhead on Dell XPS Laptops with Linux?

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Post by dzhiurgis »

sofixa wrote: post #101
vagrantJin wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Included? If you've made the choice to not drink, is the next logical step to buy a non-alcoholic alcoholic beverage? Seems a bit more than silly.

If you're with a group of people who drink alcoholic beverages, and you want to fit it, a non-alcoholic beer is probably better than a juice.

Also works if you had too many, but still wanna drink beer.

I know alcohol and logic doesn't mix.

Re: Ask HN: Why the $200 Overhead on Dell XPS Laptops with Linux?

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Post by infinii »

danudey wrote: post #51
deeg wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does Dell offer a "clean" version of Windows for the extra price? I can come up with competing reasons for why they would/wouldn't do this.

This might be an option for business or enterprise versions; I know our company buys everything from Dell so we have a good relationship, and I've seen discussions of being able to send a system image to Dell for them to put onto laptops that you order. If you're not spending a huge amount on laptops, though, I can't imagine this being an option they want to offer.

Larger enterprises have their own images and would never put a preinstall on a users' desktop.

Re: Ask HN: Why the $200 Overhead on Dell XPS Laptops with Linux?

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Post by adgjlsfhk1 »

aidenn0 wrote: post #97
adgjlsfhk1 wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

huh, that hasn't been my experience at all. I don't play a ton of demanding games, but pretty much everything I have played (on 1440p monitor, RTX 2060) is capable of hitting framecaps.

Maybe my card is to old? 1050Ti

I'd expect that to be pretty good at 1080p. No idea what's going wrong.

Re: Ask HN: Why the $200 Overhead on Dell XPS Laptops with Linux?

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Post by aidenn0 »

adgjlsfhk1 wrote: post #104
aidenn0 wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe my card is to old? 1050Ti

I'd expect that to be pretty good at 1080p. No idea what's going wrong.

1200p, but I don't run anything demanding. Some games lock-up with binary drivers, others crash nouveau and compositing window-managers have different artifiacts with either oen.

Re: Ask HN: Why the $200 Overhead on Dell XPS Laptops with Linux?

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Post by MikeBVaughn »

barton808 wrote: post #105

All, this is a glitch and not intended (as you would expect our Linux based systems are less expensive than our comparable Windows configurations). The team is working to correct this. Thanks for flagging it! Barton George, Dell

Thank you for the info; I appreciate the transparency!

Re: Ask HN: Why the $200 Overhead on Dell XPS Laptops with Linux?

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Post by barton808 »

MikeBVaughn wrote: post #107
barton808 wrote: post #105

All, this is a glitch and not intended (as you would expect our Linux based systems are less expensive than our comparable Windows configurations). The team is working to correct this. Thanks for flagging it! Barton George, Dell

Thank you for the info; I appreciate the transparency!

and I appreciate the heads up :)
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