How to avoid the Apple tax?

[Björn Lundin]

On Friday 24 August 2007 13:09:15 Richard Bennett wrote:


> Has anyone heard of a way of avoiding the Mac tax, like the way people
> request a Microsoft rebate by not accepting the Ms License?

Yes, by not buying from Apple ;-)

You might be interested in <http://www.zepto.com/Shop/Default.aspx>
They list Holland as sales country...
They might ship to Belgium

They sell computers, and laptops, without os.

>
> I don't want to migrate to OSX because I run all my servers on Linux and
> by using it daily I learn a lot about the OS, and I have become addicted
> to the Opens source way of helping and getting helped.

Open source is present on the mac as well.
Look for MacPorts, and you'll have access to most open source tools.

By the way, Macosx _is_ a nice os too. 
And there can be dual os on them

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/Björn