Thread: Should I buy a tablet?
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sulu is offline sulu
2015-03-30 , 10:31
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Originally Posted by pichlo View Post
Oh yes, there is. Buying the same laptop for £499 with Windows or for £799 without Windows is a no-brainer.
Of course. The solution is to simply not buy it at all.
If the increase in price obviously exceeds the cost of the work that is required to ship a device without Windows instead of with it, there's clearly something wrong.
And nobody will convince me that the work that is required to swap an HDD with a Windows image for an empty one is worth £300.

Originally Posted by pichlo View Post
Replacing Windows with something else does not affect my freedom of choice.
It does.
Buying a device with Windows while in fact you don't want it generates a false impression on the demand for Windows.
That false demand is a good argument why computers don't need to be open. If everybody wants Windows anyway, then why care about hardware that runs on FLOSS in the first place?
 

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