The Financial Express: HP Bundles AMD-Linux For Presario At Desi Price

Welcome to New Year’s Diwali sale–Hewlett-Packard is
slashing the price of its Compaq Presario home PC using a
combination of AMD processors and Linux operating system (OS), thus
also striking another blow at the dominance of Wintel in the Indian
market.

“For PC users, the savings are huge: a branded MNC PC for Rs
30,990 [~US$649.50/€621.17], against the current Presario
price of Rs 39,990 [~US$838.14/€801.56] based on Wintel or
Microsoft’s Windows OS and Intel chip.

“For the Presario, which has a very high brand recall because of
its sleek design and unique black and silver colours as against the
usual white PCs, it will be the lowest price in its history. In
fact, it will be the lowest price ever for a branded PC offered by
a multinational…”

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