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[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Usually they just over-pay for their computer because you can't really buy a system without Windows pre-installed (unless you build it).

I have so many computers that came with Windows installations that I never even booted into.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

"Can't really buy a computer without Windows pre-installed"? Weird, that's not my experience. The stores allow filtering by "no OS" and you can see quite a lot of options.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Which retail store have you ever walked into that had a PC on display with no OS?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

I don't know if the people walking into a brick-and-mortar for a prebuilt PC are making decisions beyond "what's available" and "what's in my budget".

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