“Vista only hit the shelves yesterday, but Microsoft’s new operating system has already sent shockwaves through the PC retail industry,” Tracey Cooper writes for The Register. “Want to get your hands on an Acer desktop bundled with a copy of ‘Genuine MS Windows Vista Premium?'”
MacDailyNews Take: We’d rather undergo a lobotomy performed by Anna Nicole Smith with a rusty corkscrew, but thanks for asking.
Cooper continues, “Get prepared to fork out a wallet-thrashing £9,999 for the pleasure, if prices down at PC World are anything to go by: With Vista retailing at only £219.99, the addition of the operating system has pushed prices sky high with the desktop itself ringing in at a whopping £9779.01 [US$12,667.73].”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “TR” for the heads up.]
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