Lindows.com Hypes An Upcoming $199 PC

prostoalex writes "After having struck a deal with Walmart on $299 PC, Lindows is planning to introduce $199 PC. ExtremeTech has the story, the official message from Michael Robertson, CEO of Lindows, is posted on Lindows.com. Robertson claims that "for under 200 dollars, you'll be able to browse the Internet, check email and run a variety of software products for far less than the price of most handheld devices! A certified version of LindowsOS will come bundled with the PC"." I wonder if such a machine would fare any better than Larry Ellison's ThinkNIC.

Comments

Re:CUT THE HYPE.

[Anonymous Coward]

What do you want them to say, "$199 without monitor, up to $13,198.99 with monitor"?

ThinkNIC?

[JamesOfTheDesert]

I wonder if such a machine would fare any better than Larry Ellison's ThinkNIC.

ThinkNOT

$200 cheap? try $1.25!

[Anonymous Coward]

for under 200 dollars, you'll be able to browse the Internet, check email and run a variety of software products for far less than the price of most handheld devices! A certified version of LindowsOS will come bundled with the PC

Ummm... my SparcStation 4 can do all of this, and I only paid $1.25 for it on eBay!

Re:$200 cheap? try $1.25!

[mendepie]

Get real.

He did :-)

Okay this is a bad joke... BUT

[sofar]

Imagine a BEOWULF cluster of these!!!

(damn that will save some pennies, and who said you NEED a monitor?)

Re:CUT THE HYPE.

[hugesmile]

OK, for $199, you'll be capable of browsing the internet, reading email, and run a variety of software... BUT the following items are required:

• a monitor
• an internet account
• power
• schooling to learn to read
• food
• water
• shelter

ALL of these items are necessary, where do you draw the line? We all take for granted that you have food, water, shelter, power, schooling, an internet account... why not assume a monitor as well! For that matter, assume the PC, and you can do it all for free! :)

Re:CUT THE HYPE.

[Cryptnotic]

Joe Sixpack doesn't buy computers. He only buys six packs of beer and drinks all of them in the back of somebody's pickup truck parked outside a sports arena. He is kind of a useless, irrelevant person.

General Public, on the other hand, is the guy who buys computers and tanks and ICBM's and rocket powered grenade launchers. The general knows how to kick ass and take names. I don't know why he would care about a $199 PC, unless it had hard-core encryption software or could be used to control space lasers on sattelites orbiting around the earth.

Re:Actually...

[The_dev0]

AOL-AfterlifeOnLine: continue swearing at your computer and crying over your download speeds long after your death.