Nate Carlson wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Jonathon Jongsma wrote: > >> Interesting. When I was shopping there was a "Instant $350 rebate on >> lattitude notebooks priced above 1499" (which is valid til tomorrow I >> believe). And I added identical with-windows and without-windows >> notebooks to my cart (since the rebate is only taken off when added to >> the cart), and the with-windows notebook had a $259 rebate applied in >> the cart and the without-windows one had a $350 rebate applied in the >> cart. So the without-windows one came out cheaper only because the full >> $350 rebate was applied. Without the rebate, they would have been >> exactly the same price. >> > > They had also discounted the wireless card, the Cingular wireless card, > and various other parts only on the Windows one.. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > | nate carlson | natecars at natecarlson.com | http://www.natecarlson.com | > | depriving some poor village of its idiot since 1981 | > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > i just got a thinkpad t60 from cdw - with winxp - and i was just about to attempt to get my ms tax money refunded. but then found out - after about 3 weeks of trying - that my embedded evdo card could only be activated via a verizon winxp appliation. so, i had to actually re-install from the recovery discs they sent and install winxp to activate my card - which of course made accept the ms license etc. so, winxp was on my laptop for about 15 minutes, now its FC6 and my evdo card works awesome!