Wal-Mart Lindows PCs Selling Well

andyring writes "CNN.com is reporting that sales of the $199 PCs have exceeded expectations. Although CNN terms them "full fledged, if low power," it seems customers don'd mind all that much if their computer does not run Windows and doesn't carry an Intel processor. Slashdot covered two reviews of those machines July 4."

Comments

hey maw!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Hey maw lookie here, theyza penguin on our cumpyoota tv. How come aol dont work? it works on Leroys maw.

well, no windows when they are sold

[cornjones]

it seems customers don'd mind all that much if their computer does not run Windows

well, they don't mind if it doesn't come with windows but i would guess that better than 9 out of 10 of them end up w/ windows on them. a few copies might even be legal (maybe)

Re:There are great!

[N3WBI3]

I tried that with mine but he needs AOL (boy does he need AOL, he insist that is the internet)

I use Lindows.....

[dirkdidit]

and I have a large penis. See there's a direct correlation there. Lindows is cheap and easy just like me!

meet the Lindows

[ChristTrekker]

With apologies to Hanna-Barbera...

Lindows
Meet the Lindows
You're the modern Wal-Mart family
Prices
Are bottom rock
You're making Linux history
Let's force
Microsoft to retreat
This cheap
PC is so 31337!
When you're
Using Lindows
You can play all your Windows games
It still looks the same
You drive Bill Gates insane!

Best qutoe of the article?

[torqer]

"We're looking at a consumer who has less sophisticated needs."

Tons of different meanings on that one. Decide for yourself which way you want to take it.

reminds me of this quote:

[RelliK]

Pricetag outside matters more than Intel inside.

Two Reviews on July 4

[Captain Large Face]

"Slashdot covered two reviews of those machines July 4."

Makes a change from "Slashdot posted the same review of these machines twice on July 4."

Joe Sixpack didn't buy it..

[EvilStein]

5,000,000 Slashdot geeks went out and bought them and immediately installed $LINUX_DISTRO on them when they got home.

Some even bought 2 or 3 and gave 'em to the kids.
Others turned extra boxes into home mp3 servers.

AAUGHH!!

[Dirtside]

Okay, I nearly had a heart attack when I read this:

Freedom -- from Microsoft --

A split second passed where I thought that, somehow, Microsoft had either trademarked "Freedom", released a program named "Freedom" ("Microsoft Freedom"... perhaps an oxymoron like "Microsoft Works"?), or acquired the intellectual property rights to the entire concept of freedom. Man, I need to read less /.

Re:Confirmation from a "non-geek" (Re:Bingo!)

[Arandir]

I read slashdot because it's so hard to find anything else intelligent to read

Keep searching...

Call the lawyers!

[LX.onesizebigger]

CNN.com is reporting that sales of the $199 PCs...

DMCA! DMCA! DMCA!

Re:And in Europe?

[fishbowl]

>90% of the US is on the streets while the top
>10% is easy pimpin' out of big suites and using
>the botton 90% as sex slaves for goatse
>experiments.

Uh, it *is* something like that. If you look at how well-off those 10% actually are, the difference between the living of the 90% and a herd of goats is statistically insignificant.