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..

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