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    Possible to buy without OS, RAM and HDD?

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by coolxal, Oct 18, 2008.

  1. coolxal

    coolxal Newbie

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    Is it possible to buy a XPS without the OS, RAM and HDD?
     
    coolxal, Oct 18, 2008
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    Charr Notebook Deity

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    Not an XPS, but you can buy a barebone system/whitebook to do that with. Specifically what model you looking at?
     
    Charr, Oct 18, 2008
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    atbnet Notebook Prophet

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    You can get the XPS models with Ubuntu now. I would recommend getting the lowest amount of RAM though if you plan on going to 4 GB.
     
    atbnet, Oct 18, 2008
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