Save that turkey deepfry oil for biodiesel
SMS wrote:
SMS wrote:
Eeyore wrote:
Yes it does.
An OEM license of XP Home costs the manufacturer between $45 and $65
depending on the quantity purchased, with XP Professional costing
another $20-30.
On a low-end PC this is more than any other single component, including
the CPU, disk drive, Motherboard, or RAM (512MB). On higher end PCs the
OS is not the most expensive part, as the larger drives, higher-end CPUs
and increased amount of RAM push up the costs of these other components.
This is why there's a big incentive to sell higher end machines, the OS
is a fixed cost no matter how much the machine costs.
I forgot to mention, that with Vista, Microsoft raised the price to
manufacturer's by 10% over the cost of XP Home. So while other
components in the PC are decreasing, the cost of the OS is actually
going up significantly. If your machines aren't WHQL certified, and it's
becoming harder due to Vista, you get to pay more as well.
What's WHQL certified ?
Graham
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