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16Skittles · 2012-07-20 10:34:59

Dell has just announced that it will begin a project to sell an Ubuntu based developer Ultrabook version of its XPS 13. Would you pay the kind of price asked just for the right to have Ubuntu? In my opinion it would have to seriously undercut its windows counterpart on price or add many new features, because it is easy enough to install Ubuntu on the original windows version for free. Would you pay a premium price for a laptop running only Ubuntu?

lallaway12 · 2012-07-20 14:29:05

Nah. Id use windows even fans would get it free but they might be partners for this and make it have a key for start menu it might have screen instead of shift it might have control and other stuff so it depends hmm

oshe10 · 2012-07-20 14:43:38

I only use Apple

Jackieee · 2012-07-20 14:59:12

I think this is really cool, but as you said, it'd have to be cheaper than the Windows version for me to be any more interested.

jji7skyline · 2012-07-20 21:16:11

But couldn't you just as easily buy a Macbook and get proper software support?

Jackieee · 2012-07-20 22:04:33

jji7skyline wrote:
But couldn't you just as easily buy a Macbook and get proper software support?

Er... what do you mean "proper software support"? Ubuntu has a gigantic community and is open source, so the entire community is there to support and help in the form of the documentation, the IRC channel, and the Launchpad questions page, as well as there being commercial support by Canonical. What more could one need?

Parachute · 2012-07-20 22:29:03

Jackieee wrote:
jji7skyline wrote:
But couldn't you just as easily buy a Macbook and get proper software support?
Er... what do you mean "proper software support"? Ubuntu has a gigantic community and is open source, so the entire community is there to support and help in the form of the documentation, the IRC channel, and the Launchpad questions page, as well as there being commercial support by Canonical. What more could one need?

I would still think that the support is not as good as OSX or Windows support.

Also, Ubuntu is not exactly the best looking OS ever.

samtwheels · 2012-07-20 22:41:18

Parachute wrote:
Jackieee wrote:
jji7skyline wrote:
But couldn't you just as easily buy a Macbook and get proper software support?
Er... what do you mean "proper software support"? Ubuntu has a gigantic community and is open source, so the entire community is there to support and help in the form of the documentation, the IRC channel, and the Launchpad questions page, as well as there being commercial support by Canonical. What more could one need?
I would still think that the support is not as good as OSX or Windows support.

Also, Ubuntu is not exactly the best looking OS ever.

the latest ones look great in my opinion.

@OP:
Can't you still run it for free, just not on a special machine?

16Skittles · 2012-07-20 22:59:18

samtwheels wrote:
Parachute wrote:
Jackieee wrote:

Er... what do you mean "proper software support"? Ubuntu has a gigantic community and is open source, so the entire community is there to support and help in the form of the documentation, the IRC channel, and the Launchpad questions page, as well as there being commercial support by Canonical. What more could one need?
I would still think that the support is not as good as OSX or Windows support.

Also, Ubuntu is not exactly the best looking OS ever.
the latest ones look great in my opinion.

@OP:
Can't you still run it for free, just not on a special machine?

Yes, and that is part of my point against it. Anything can run Ubuntu, and for most users it would be necessary to test programs on Windows or OSX as well, so there seems to be little point to a notebook with Ubuntu preinstalled.

Parachute · 2012-07-20 23:41:57

16Skittles wrote:
samtwheels wrote:
Parachute wrote:

I would still think that the support is not as good as OSX or Windows support.

Also, Ubuntu is not exactly the best looking OS ever.
the latest ones look great in my opinion.

@OP:
Can't you still run it for free, just not on a special machine?
Yes, and that is part of my point against it. Anything can run Ubuntu, and for most users it would be necessary to test programs on Windows or OSX as well, so there seems to be little point to a notebook with Ubuntu preinstalled.

True. I could just buy a cheap netbook and install Ubuntu on it, or insatl it as a VM even.

Aux2 · 2012-07-21 00:12:42

Whoa

Something made by Ubuntu over 100 USD yikes

16Skittles · 2012-07-21 00:16:15

Aux2 wrote:
Whoa

Something made by Ubuntu over 100 USD

Not made by Ubuntu, made by Dell. It is just shipped with Ubuntu and what seems to be some other developer related tools.

trinary · 2012-07-21 03:43:57

Probably not.

jji7skyline · 2012-07-21 04:01:07

In fact, how is a notebook pre-installed with Ubuntu even special? You could just as easily do it yourself, and you'd have much more choice over what kind of laptop to get. tongue

fanofcena · 2012-07-21 23:06:36

16Skittles wrote:
Dell has just announced that it will begin a project to sell an Ubuntu based developer Ultrabook version of its XPS 13. Would you pay the kind of price asked just for the right to have Ubuntu? In my opinion it would have to seriously undercut its windows counterpart on price or add many new features, because it is easy enough to install Ubuntu on the original windows version for free. Would you pay a premium price for a laptop running only Ubuntu?

I vote yes! Ubuntu is awesome!!!! and infact linux is just awesome awesome awesome :-) , i even installed Fedora 17 on my MacBook Pro 15" when it came :-).

Linuxes just make your life easy :-) use em you wont regret , you might have a lil bit time struggling but then you will start enjoying and one more thing linuxes are more reliable and faster then windows [ tested and benchmarked]

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jji7skyline · 2012-07-21 23:10:27

fanofcena wrote:
16Skittles wrote:
Dell has just announced that it will begin a project to sell an Ubuntu based developer Ultrabook version of its XPS 13. Would you pay the kind of price asked just for the right to have Ubuntu? In my opinion it would have to seriously undercut its windows counterpart on price or add many new features, because it is easy enough to install Ubuntu on the original windows version for free. Would you pay a premium price for a laptop running only Ubuntu?
I vote yes! Ubuntu is awesome!!!! and infact linux is just awesome awesome awesome :-) , i even installed Fedora 17 on my MacBook Pro 15" when it came :-).

Linuxes just make your life easy :-) use em you wont regret , you might have a lil bit time struggling but then you will start enjoying and one more thing linuxes are more reliable and faster then windows [ tested and benchmarked]

I just hope you didn't erase osx. Linux is good and fine for some things but not for others.

Jackieee · 2012-07-21 23:10:36

fanofcena wrote:
linuxes are more reliable and faster then windows [ tested and benchmarked]

I agree sometimes, but I know that Windows XP's GUI is a ton faster than GNOME at least on my computer (which is one reason I use Lubuntu)

jji7skyline · 2012-07-21 23:14:21

Jackieee wrote:
fanofcena wrote:
linuxes are more reliable and faster then windows [ tested and benchmarked]
I agree sometimes, but I know that Windows XP's GUI is a ton faster than GNOME at least on my computer (which is one reason I use Lubuntu)

Ubuntu is fast, but still requires a modern computer. A pentium with less than 1GB of RAM would run faster with XP or kubuntu/lubuntu. Unity is bloated.

16Skittles · 2012-07-22 00:00:53

fanofcena wrote:
16Skittles wrote:
Dell has just announced that it will begin a project to sell an Ubuntu based developer Ultrabook version of its XPS 13. Would you pay the kind of price asked just for the right to have Ubuntu? In my opinion it would have to seriously undercut its windows counterpart on price or add many new features, because it is easy enough to install Ubuntu on the original windows version for free. Would you pay a premium price for a laptop running only Ubuntu?
I vote yes! Ubuntu is awesome!!!! and infact linux is just awesome awesome awesome :-) , i even installed Fedora 17 on my MacBook Pro 15" when it came :-).

Linuxes just make your life easy :-) use em you wont regret , you might have a lil bit time struggling but then you will start enjoying and one more thing linuxes are more reliable and faster then windows [ tested and benchmarked]

The thing is, why would someone buy a laptop with only Linux installed, when they can, for free, install Linux onto any laptop? As for the uses of other operating systems, Linux lacks (or at least used to lack) sufficient Intel Graphics 3000 drivers (an OpenGL benchmark that ran at 500+ FPS with a Radeon ran at 0-1 FPS with the Intel), and most games are Windows only (although more are being ported to OSX, with Steam for Mac. However, Steam is also being ported to Linux!!!).

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