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Wal-Mart Lindows PCs Selling Well

Posted by timothy on from the how-many-are-used-for-parts dept.

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."

9 of 665 comments (clear)

  1. Re:There are great! by N3WBI3 · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  2. I use Lindows..... by dirkdidit · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  3. meet the Lindows by ChristTrekker · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

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  4. reminds me of this quote: by RelliK · · Score: 5, Funny

    Pricetag outside matters more than Intel inside.

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  5. Two Reviews on July 4 by Captain+Large+Face · · Score: 5, Funny

    "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."

  6. Joe Sixpack didn't buy it.. by EvilStein · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

  7. AAUGHH!! by Dirtside · · Score: 5, Funny
    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 /.
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  8. Re:Confirmation from a "non-geek" (Re:Bingo!) by Arandir · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    Keep searching...

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  9. Call the lawyers! by LX.onesizebigger · · Score: 4, Funny
    CNN.com is reporting that sales of the $199 PCs...

    DMCA! DMCA! DMCA!

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