Cheap Way To Buy Windows XP ?

I am building a couple PC's out of some surplus stuff I have. Is there a
place to buy the above mentioned (any version) relatively cheap in order to
resale it with these boxes I am putting together? Adding $75+ per box makes
this project seem worthless as these systems will only be worth about $100.
Any suggestions??

RD wrote:
> I am building a couple PC's out of some surplus stuff I have. Is there a
> place to buy the above mentioned (any version) relatively cheap in order to
> resale it with these boxes I am putting together? Adding $75+ per box makes
> this project seem worthless as these systems will only be worth about $100.
> Any suggestions??
>
>

Install Linux on it, then show to customer, saying "see, it boots this
OS fine, and you can pick up a copy of WinXP and install that if you
want". Now you've spent zero and are still legal. Distros you could use
are Knoppix or Ubuntu or about 500 other distros. The first two mentioned
are a 700MB download, followed by burn to CD.

Paul

Paul <nospam@needed.com> wrote:

> RD wrote:
>> I am building a couple PC's out of some surplus stuff I have. Is
>> there a place to buy the above mentioned (any version) relatively
>> cheap in order to resale it with these boxes I am putting together?
>> Adding $75+ per box makes this project seem worthless as these
>> systems will only be worth about $100.

Yup, it's the pits.

> Install Linux on it, then show to customer, saying "see, it boots
> this OS fine, and you can pick up a copy of WinXP and install that
> if you want". Now you've spent zero and are still legal. Distros you
> could use are Knoppix or Ubuntu or about 500 other distros. The
> first two mentioned are a 700MB download, followed by burn to CD.

Sounds like a good idea for buyers that have access to a copy of
Windows.







>
> Paul
>

On Tue, 4 Sep 2007 14:11:30 -0400, "RD" <reddog500@hotmail.net> wrote:

>I am building a couple PC's out of some surplus stuff I have. Is there a
>place to buy the above mentioned (any version) relatively cheap in order to
>resale it with these boxes I am putting together? Adding $75+ per box makes
>this project seem worthless as these systems will only be worth about $100.
>Any suggestions??
>

Load them up with Linux. Not only it's free but the PCs will run
faster.