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Aral Balkan
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I mainly post on my blog at https://ar.al  (RSS: https://ar.al/index.xml ) and interact on my Mastodon https://mastodon.ar.al . Please follow me there.

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    1. Aral Balkan‏ @aral Jun 9

      Umm, @DellIreland, can you please explain to me why the exact same XPS 13 computer costs €630 more when it ships with Ubuntu—a free and open source operating system—than when it does so with Windows 10? (I’m assuming this is a typo & will be fixed, @barton808?) #projectsputnikpic.twitter.com/xkOSNTQ3SP

      Screenshot of Dell Ireland’s XPS 13 page showing that the exact same configuration costs €630 more than the Windows version when it comes with Ubuntu.
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    2. Francois Armand‏ @fanf42 Jun 9
      Replying to @aral @DellIreland @barton808

      well, dell site is too much crao, can't find it :/

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    3. Barton George‏ @barton808 Jun 9
      Replying to @fanf42 @aral @DellIreland

      Hi Aral and Francois, the dev edition pricing in Ireland seems a bit high :) I'm guessing it's a glitch, ill ping the team in Europe. Could you find it on the French site? I appreciate you both flagging this!

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    4. Aral Balkan‏ @aral Jun 9
      Replying to @barton808 @fanf42 @DellIreland

      Thanks, Barton, I thought it was a mistake :) It looks like the Ubuntu version is €200.40 cheaper than the Windows version on the French store. (Go to http://dell.fr  and search for XPS 13 to find the listings.)pic.twitter.com/BriKHiBDaE

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    5. Aral Balkan‏ @aral Jun 9
      Replying to @aral @barton808 and

      No, wait, sorry, the other way around. Also more expensive (€290.04) on the French store but by less (in my defense, it’s quite late here and I should be asleep and those sites are damn confusing) :)pic.twitter.com/OR62OVOuFr

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    6. Barton George‏ @barton808 Jun 10
      Replying to @aral @fanf42 @DellIreland

      Hey Aral, I just emailed the team in Europe to look into this. Every so often there is a glitch that throws things out of whack which results in pricing errors. Stand by!

      2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    7. Francois Armand‏ @fanf42 Jun 10
      Replying to @barton808 @aral @DellIreland

      thank you hors looking to it, it's really nice! By the way, thank you for sputnik, you showed a path. So bad there's no xps15 sputnik, my team would have bough 2 right now (yeah, I know about the precision 5330).

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    8. Barton George‏ @barton808 Jun 15
      Replying to @fanf42 @aral @DellIreland

      Aral and Francois, both the French and Irish sites should be fixed now Thanks again for calling this to my attention thanks for your support in general!

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    9. Aral Balkan‏ @aral Jun 15
      Replying to @barton808 @fanf42 @DellIreland

      Hey Barton, thank you for trying but I don’t understand what’s changed on the Irish site. XPS 13, 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD (exc. VAT and delivery) Windows: €1,878.99 Linux: €2,508.99 Linux: €630 more expensive. So is this correct then? https://www.dell.com/en-ie/work/shop/laptops/xps-13-laptop/spd/xps-13-9370-laptop …pic.twitter.com/h7JmZASiiW

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    10. Francois Armand‏ @fanf42 Jun 15
      Replying to @aral @barton808 @DellIreland

      In the french site, it seems to be corrected (even if the Win version is still cheaper by 10€)pic.twitter.com/1intzK6gY5

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      Aral Balkan‏ @aral Jun 15
      Replying to @fanf42 @barton808 @DellIreland

      Well one out of two ain’t bad, I guess :)

      10:07 AM - 15 Jun 2018
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        1. Barton George‏ @barton808 Jun 15
          Replying to @aral @fanf42 @DellIreland

          Uggg, let me go back to them again. I appreciate your patience!

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