Oh yes they do. You can't do it on the web however; the option for "No OS" doesn't exist... But if you call, Dell will not let you walk out of the showroom empty-handed because of an OS. They don't like to sell a system without OS, (they lose a little margin, plus the wholesale volume becomes skewed) but they do it all the time. Osorico
Pony up for the mac, no virus, no spyware, no crashing..to me those along are worth the extra couple hundred.
Then they either changed their ways or I got a bad operator when i called. When I called (maybe 2+ years ago) and asked if I could by a pc with no OS they said no. I said have a nice day.
Doesn't matter anyway. Frankly, Dell only rates a "C" as far as PC hardware is concerned imo. As you said earlier, you build your own... you know precisely what you're getting! That is the way to go. Osorico
Ferret, do you happen to know if Intuit software (Quicken, Turbotax, etc.) will now run seamlessly under Wine? I tried this two years ago, but at that time Wine would not run Intuits software satisfactorily. By the way, the TOS Java trading platform runs great under Linux.
Unfortunatelly I don't know if those applications run under Wine. Wine site (http://www.winehq.org/) contains AppDB which can be searched for applications to see if people successfully run them or not... Hope it helps.
So you are running TWS in Ubuntu and QuoteTracker through Wine? How can QT possibly communicate with TWS as they are under a different OS? Sounds a bit too good to be true. I tried Ubuntu 6/7 some time ago, it didn't work properly and looked rather ugly too.
Not a problem. The TWS API works thru a TCP connection. Additionally Wine is not another OS, it is an implementation of the WIN32 API (ie a number of libraries) that runs on *nix operating systems. If you don't like the Gnome desktop (standard with Ubuntu) you could try Kubuntu which is the release that uses the KDE desktop. KDE is possibly more like Windows than Gnome.