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

Joe Schmoe ain't buying it.

[Chanc_Gorkon]

Folks like us are buying these with "maybe" a few clueless newbies. I kind of look at the newbies buying it as a good thing as that's who they are targetting this at. But the bulk of the folks buying these are most likely geeks that realize high GHz CPUs aren't everything and these would work great as a MP3 server, firewall, router, or whatever when they open it and tweak it by throwing in a bigger HD or a couple network cards. Why buy a old machine to do this when these are only 200 bucks.

Re:$200 Walmart PCs with Mandrake?

[Hektor_Troy]

It's real Free Software, it's secure, it's fast, it's reliable, and there are many many software available for it.

And unless you know exactly what you're doing (which new users don't), you're stuck staring at a monitor refreshing at 60 Hz - welcome to headache heaven!

Sure, I can just blah blah blah - no I can't! I'm not a power user, and I'm not going to modify my X config file! Give me a fucking graphical tool for it! Windows can do it - so why can't I do it in X?