Dell triples charge to downgrade PCs to XP to $150

Dell triples charge to downgrade PCs to XP to $150
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#1 Liskiller

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Posted 09 December 2008 - 12:42 PM

More than five months after it stopped selling its popular Inspiron line of consumer desktop and laptop PCs with Windows XP, Dell Inc. is offering the systems with the aging operating system for a surcharge of $150 over the newer Windows Vista.

Dell's Inspiron 1525 notebooks and 530 desktops can be ordered with Windows XP Professional preinstalled for an extra $150, according to the company's Web site. The fee is three times the maximum amount Dell charged last summer, immediately after Microsoft Corp. pulled XP from retail and barred computer makers from installing the more popular XP Home edition on anything but lightweight, low-priced "netbooks."

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#2 CommonSense

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Posted 09 December 2008 - 01:19 PM

That's ridiculous. If the XP drivers are available I wouldn't pay $150, it's really not that hard to do.

Greedy bastards.

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Posted 09 December 2008 - 02:02 PM

Its a convenience charge for the installation of an outdated product that is soon to be more of an inconvenience to Dell than it is worth... so they are upping the price to ween the consumer off the old and onto the new.

With Windows 7 around just around the corner and vista having been out for almost a year now, I think that people really need to let go of the security blanket that XP has become since vista's initial and questionably premature introduction.

Microsoft has been more than gracious enough to run XP licenses for the past year... Time to let go...

#4 phoenix_abhi

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Posted 09 December 2008 - 02:03 PM

Who will benefit ? MS or Dell. My ans - Both. This is a business plan

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#5 Syzygy

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Posted 10 December 2008 - 12:57 AM

They're probably working with M$ to get people to stick, or upgrade to Vista

And plus, isn't XP support ended?*

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Posted 10 December 2008 - 01:08 AM

Syzygy, on Dec 9 2008, 04:57 PM, said:

They're probably working with M$ to get people to stick, or upgrade to Vista

And plus, isn't XP support ended?*

I think XP support extends to 2014...

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Posted 10 December 2008 - 01:59 AM

winlover_41, on Dec 9 2008, 08:08 PM, said:

Syzygy, on Dec 9 2008, 04:57 PM, said:

They're probably working with M$ to get people to stick, or upgrade to Vista

And plus, isn't XP support ended?*

I think XP support extends to 2014...

Yup 2014
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#8 InlineSkate

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Posted 10 December 2008 - 02:14 AM

Eh who cares?

Its an inconvenience to dell and MS

#9 Munkypoo7

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Posted 10 December 2008 - 02:33 AM

Uh... why would you buy a dell anyways?

and if you REALLY want xp, there are plenty of ways to get it, msdnaa is a very inexpensive way to get it

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Posted 10 December 2008 - 02:36 AM

Munkypoo7, on Dec 9 2008, 09:33 PM, said:

Uh... why would you buy a dell anyways?

and if you REALLY want xp, there are plenty of ways to get it, msdnaa is a very inexpensive way to get it

theres many other ways too *wink wink*

#11 Secured Tim

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Posted 10 December 2008 - 04:18 AM

What happened to the downgrade rights?

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Posted 10 December 2008 - 04:24 AM

Secured Tim, on Dec 9 2008, 11:18 PM, said:

What happened to the downgrade rights?

Only business users get downgrade rights

#13 XenonPulse

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Posted 22 February 2009 - 05:20 AM

Pirrrrate!

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Post icon Posted 22 February 2009 - 07:54 AM

XenonPulse, on Feb 22 2009, 12:20 PM, said:

Pirrrrate!

Agreed!

Buy a Dell notebook with Vista preinstalled (with lower price, of course), and make it dual or triple boot: Vista, Windows 7 beta and/or Xp installed which Xp was from torrents.

Problem solved...