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Originally Posted by teh603
Windows is cheap? An OEM copy of the OS costs about $100 when purchased with suitable components to make a computer. A boxed copy is between $200 and $300.
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Last time my employer bought a Sun workstation for me it cost about $25,000. Last time I bought a laptop I looked at the equivalent Mac laptop and it was two and half times the price of the Windows version.
And real OEMs, I believe, actually make money from putting Windows on computers because Microsoft only charge them a few dollars and third parties pay them to load it up with their crapware (and Microsoft then complain because the crapware makes them take forever to boot).