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.