There's back and forth on whether Vista is selling poorly or well, but if recent announcements from Dell are anything to go by, the buzz is on other operating systems.
In its announcement yesterday that it is bringing XP back as an option for people buying select new Inspiron laptops and Dimension desktops, Dell said it heard its customers "loud and clear."
And before that, more than 100,000 people were just as loud and clear about wanting Linux on Dells as well, according to an announcement (scroll down) at the end of last month. The computer giant is still mum on which Linux distributions it will offer pre-installed, and on which PCs, beyond saying it will be both desktop and notebook models.
The only option for a factory-installed Linux computer from Dell right now is a high-end workstation, according to a spokesperson.
So which OS would you get on a Dell? Weigh in here:
It's official. Vista is DEAD. GOOD RIDDANCE to Crapola. But, will MS learn from it's piggish stupidity???
I want OS X Tiger on my new Dell
good for dell I hope they take MS to court
I was shopping for a laptop for my wife yesterday and looked at Gateways. All of the machines on their site are configured with Vista but, if you talk or chat with a sales rep, they'll build one with XP and you can forego the extra gig of ram and industrial graphics.
As it happened though, I found a loaded Lenovo 3000 at Tech For Less...new, factory sealed Core 2 Duo T5500 with a gig of ram and a 120GB hard disk and XP Home...900 bucks including shipping. Bad news? I got the last one. :)
I purchased a Dell laptop just as Vista was released. Since Vista was under development for years I expected there to just the Vista learning curve to deal with. WRONG! It's no wonder Dell has gotten so much negative feedback. When Vista and the apps are working together, it pretty nice. Unfortunately most software was having a problem of one type or another. Dell support was completely clueless to help. So was the software mfr that Dell pre-foisted upon me. So I ended up using my own years of experience to rip out most of the malfunctioning software. I've gotten rid of error msgs and nag msgs which was good enough. Clearly Vista needed a few more months of compatibility testing by vendors!!
Offering OSX would be superb!
Note that if Dell sends you an OS you didn't want (like Vista) you can ask them for a refund. They've honored such refunds in the past; and apparently even if they refuse the license agreement say you can return the OS if it's unused.
For some info on the process:
http://ideastorm.com/article/show/66143/Switching_from_Vista_to_XP_dont_use_Vista_and_you_can_get_it_refunded