Originally Posted by WeatherJinx
....while most PCs just come with an OS and some demos.
Except that now you can download (or get off a magazine CD) pretty much everything you might need from an office suite to a webserver for free.
'Course it mightn't be quite so pretty or slick as shop and you might have to hunt some of it down, but free it is......
The equation is looking a bit fluid these days.