Microsoft’s answer to Chromebook – Computer Sweden

Dell Inspiration 15 is one of the models with the new OS.

For the market’s cheapest computers, the price of the operating system to be crucial in the competition for customers. The Google realized a few years ago when developing Chrome OS which is free and now Microsoft’s countermove in the form of “Windows 8.1 with Bing.” The new free version of Windows is no different from the old one except that Bing is the default search engine, while Internet Explorer is the default that browser.

First out with This concept is Lenovo whose G40 now sold for $ 250 in the United States, or about 1,700 excluding VAT. Next up is the HP Stream 14, which will go on sale for just $ 200, about the same price that applies to the cheapest versions of the Chromebook.

Common to the Most computers to be sold with the free version of Windows is that they have screen resolution of 1366×768 pixels, but since it can vary in terms of other configuration. Lenovo G40 and G50 have screens of 14 and 15.6 inches and hard drives of 320 GB. Dell Inspiron 15 costs $ 250 and has 500 GB hard disk.

The cheapest is Lenovo Q190 small desktops that are sold for $ 225, compared with $ 285 for the same model running with the standard version of Windows. From this it can be concluded that PC manufacturers get $ 60 discount (about 500 Euros including VAT) if they choose Bing version of Windows.