On 1/30/07, Nate Carlson <tclug at natecarlson.com> wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Jonathon Jongsma wrote: > > You're sure you were comparing exactly the same system? Because I was > > just shopping for a D820 about two days ago and they came out to exactly > > the same price with and without windows. The one big difference seemed > > to be that not all of the same options were available depending on > > whether you were looking at the with-windows or without-windows options > > (for instance, without-windows seemed to offer me more choices of > > processor speed on the higher end and less choice on the bottom end... > > Don't ask me why...) > > Yeah, they were identical. They had a pile of promo's that only were only > applied to the Windows laptop. 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. -- jonner