cheap dual-boot desktop recommendations?

[Don Levey]

Dan Ritter wrote:

> 
> Here's what I would buy for an office desktop machine, right
> now. It's biased towards Linux compatibility and assumes that
> you're going to run software RAID mirroring to insure against
> disk failure. $587, needs a monitor and presumably you'll want
> to buy Windows. 
 >...
> ASSEMBLY:(+35.00) Assembly All Parts, Test System, Install
> WINDOWS OS and Device Driver
> 
> -dsr-
> 

If you're not going to buy Windows, is there any difference between this 
installation and their bare-bones assembly and test?
  -Don

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