Ask HN: Buying a cheap laptop without an OS?

Re:Ask HN: Buying a cheap laptop without an OS? by stuff4ben on Thursday November 03, 2011 @05:16PM (#3193727)

I doubt the actual price of a Windows license is accounted for in the price of a cheap laptop. Odds are they get it for much less than $100 a license...

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Re:Ask HN: Buying a cheap laptop without an OS? by wx77 on Thursday November 03, 2011 @05:50PM (#3193834)

Actually it is likely the distributors make money on Windows with all the crapware and trial software they put on their computers.

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