<b>on Wednesday July 11</b><br clear="all"><i><span style="font-style: italic;">T</span>he <a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/04/019215&tid=163">apparent price advantage of Ubuntu Dell over Vista</a>
. The article linked to a Dell IdeaStorm page with the status: 'Implemented.' Today the status has changed on that page to '<a href="http://www.ideastorm.com/article/show/66879/Implemented_Ubuntu_Dell_is_50_Less_Than_Windows_Dell#">
Reneged: Ubuntu Dell is $225 More Than Windows Dell</a>.'
The full price of a Ubuntu Inspiron 1420N is indeed $50 cheaper than
the identical hardware configuration with Vista — except that a $275
free upgrade to 2GB memory and a 160-GB hard drive is available for
Windows only.<br><br></i><small style="font-weight: bold;">on
Friday July 13th</small><br>Dell confesses it made a mistake with its pricing and is now
offering the Inspiron 1420 laptop with Ubuntu and a full 2 gigabytes of
RAM and a 160GB hard-drive for $50 less than the same system with
Windows Vista and not $225 more as had been the case last week.
<p>I for one am glad to see Dell do this, they had me a little worried for a while, good move Dell.</p>
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