This is old news, but I missed it previously.

Dell are offering workstations with linux pre-loaded. However, in some fit of corporate madness they are seriously overpriced. You can see the details of the workstations at Dell. The cheapest starts at US$759 but I assume that price will rapidly rise as you get the components you need.

One positive point though – the high end one can come with up to 16Gb of RAM – more than enough for most home users….

Now, as mentioned in the past, we are big linux fans and actually like the idea that linux is now being sold “pre-packaged.” However, this risks pricing it out of the market. It is cheaper to buy a windows PC and install linux (a free version) yourself and as long as this is the case, things like this from Dell are just martketting ploys.

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