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Mereo@mereo@piefed.ca
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Amid RAM price hikes, Microsoft reportedly raises Windows license cost, forcing OEMs to hike prices even further on hardware

www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/amid-ram-price-hikes-microsoft-reportedly-raises-windows-license-cost-forcing-oems-to-hike-prices-even-further-on-hardware
Windows 11 Hero Surfaces on a white tableWindows CentralWindows 11 license fee hikes contributing to higher laptop prices, says reportA new report claims Microsoft has raised the cost of the Windows license by up to 10% for certain OEMs, which is much higher than usual.
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Zedstrian@Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz
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More OEMs should ship devices with Linux as an option, discounted by the Windows license cost.

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ms.lane@ms_lane@lemmy.world
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The problem there is Windows still has negative cost for OEMs due to all the bloatware they bundle.

They get paid for that McAfee and Epic Games icon.

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Die4Ever@Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com
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meanwhile on the Dell website

EDIT: $100 of that difference comes from Win11 requiring an SSD upgrade from 512GB to 1TB

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fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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What currency is that? Windows 11 home is $140 USD.

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Die4Ever@Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com
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USD

www.dell.com/en-us/shop/…/usexcucto9350lnl01#cust…

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sigmaklimgrindset@sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz
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The “discount” “+$100” 💀

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KubeRoot@kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de
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I think that might be losing a $100 discount from the other configuration, possibly because they have excess smaller drives that don’t meet win11 requirements?

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ReluctantMuskrat@ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world
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That’s crazy! I had no idea they were charging that much now. Thanks for sharing!

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