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Microsoft says OEMs pay about $50 for Windows on a $1,000 PC

Sep 16th 2009 11:23PM on Engadget

The $50 is for the basic OS; i.e. Vista Home Premium OEM which you can get from NewEgg for $109. Dell and other OEMs get a break since they buy tens of thousands of copies and pay in one shot. You can get a break too if you agree to purchase, say, 100,000 copies and pay up front.

Microsoft says OEMs pay about $50 for Windows on a $1,000 PC

Sep 16th 2009 11:17PM on Engadget

No, it's a flat rate. He was simply observing that for a $1000 PC it's 5% of the cost.

Palm's Colligan rebuffs Steve Jobs' 'likely illegal' plea to stop hiring from Apple

Aug 21st 2009 12:50AM on Engadget

It's called collusion and is quite illegal.

Nissan says its new electric car, the Leaf, gets 367 miles per gallon

Aug 17th 2009 1:18AM on Engadget

I agree up to a point. I think the carbon footprint thing is perfectly silly--the number would be completely meaningless. The newer diesels are fantastic, but they do have other serious pollution problems. But TCO for x miles would be a fantastic number for ALL cars.

Nissan says its new electric car, the Leaf, gets 367 miles per gallon

Aug 17th 2009 1:15AM on Engadget

In the US we are accustomed to the MPG rating. I find the gallon per 100 miles a much easier way to gauge actual costs. Likewise, a kWh (or watt-hour) per 100 miles figure would be an easy way to calculate potential costs (since most electric bills come with the kWh cost.)

(I agree with Dan, above, that the battery pack replacement/recycling is a huge hidden cost in electrics. Oh, and never mind that no battery runs well in the cold or heat. Have fun driving your electric car in Minnesota in the winter or Phoenix in the summer.)

Creative patent filing reveals drag and drop interface with "action tabs"

Aug 10th 2009 10:11PM on Engadget

Based on recent rulings, this patent is invalid. We'll see if the patent office follows the rules and rejects it.

Official Windows 7 upgrade chart is ridiculous

Aug 6th 2009 9:49PM on Engadget

No. It means you can't upgrade in place, which is generally a bad idea.

Official Windows 7 upgrade chart is ridiculous

Aug 6th 2009 9:46PM on Engadget

Mac people crack me up. Tell me again how easy it is to upgrade from OS 9 to Leopard (OS X 10.5)?

FCC queries AT&T, Apple on Google Voice iPhone app rejection

Aug 2nd 2009 2:24PM on Engadget

Apple has every right to approve or deny any application they want in the App Store for any reason whatsoever. They don't even have to give a reason. If they don't like your name, they can reject it. THEY ARE A PRIVATE ENTERPRISE. What the hell do you people not understand about this.

Let me put it another way; if you owned a pet store, you can accept or reject what products YOU want to carry. Moreover, if you sell an item with a guarantee, how would you respond if that consumer went running off to the government to change the terms and then forced you to?

Oh, but this is different, will be your likely response. Bullshit.

FCC queries AT&T, Apple on Google Voice iPhone app rejection

Aug 2nd 2009 2:20PM on Engadget

What does that have to do with this investigation? The FCC isn't looking at anything but responding by law to a complaint from one of the whiniest companies out there: Google. Odds are the FCC will reject the complain since there is plenty of competition in the market and there is no regulations that remotely put Apple in the wrong.

If you signed the two year contract, you did so based on what that product did, not what it may do in some fanciful future. Apple is under no obligation to grant you every wish you want. Don't believe me? Try taking them to court, just be prepared to be laughed and humiliated.

Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.

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