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Why Dell only sells Microsoft windows hardware?
Recently, I visited an Apple store in a Detroit suburb, I bought my apple mini there, I like it. On this day I would say about 100 folks were looking, trying out, and buying, about 30 Apple associates were selling, over a 130 folk milling around in a normal retail space, very little room. As I exited with my purchase, I turned left for no reason and quickly came upon a Dell sales display, one sales clerk. I engaged the friendly clerk, I did not tell him I bought my apple because of a poor dell experience. I did ask him if Dell would sell me a laptop that would dual boot windows and linux or just linux. He said no. I would have considered a response that such a machine would require a premium price. I sat down
near the display in the thirty minutes I waited I never saw anyone stop at the Dell display, the maul was packed with shoppers.
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Can Dell/HP sell linux workstations, if : they still pay Microsoft a fee for OS, and they charge the customer a support fee for a Zero-cost linux OS?
What am I missing about selling hardware?
I have heard that "shipping & handling" contains all the profit margin in a hardware sale, correct?