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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."

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  1. I may seem like a troll for saying this by danny256 · · Score: 5, Troll

    but I bought one of those boxes because it was cheap, formatted and stuck a pirated copy of windows XP on it. I wonder how many other people have done the same thing.

    1. Re:I may seem like a troll for saying this by zerblat · · Score: 0, Troll

      The same people who go to Wal-Mart to by a PC?

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  2. These are great by photon317 · · Score: 1, Troll


    If anything will begin to leech some of the masses away from the M$ world, it will be these dirt cheap low end non-intel non-ms PCs selling at WalMart. If I were rich right now, I'd dump some money into supporting these companies. They may not have the whole Windowsy-seeming-end-user-linux-setup thing perfect, but they'll get there eventually. Remember that probably 70+ % of home windows users just want to read email and browse the web, and maybe write a document from time to time.

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  3. Re:I am pleased with the Lindows aspect... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    A fox crossing a river on the back of a chicken? Good god, man! Get your story straight! It is a scorpion on the back of a turtle! At least a duck would make more sense than a CHICKEN!!!

  4. People don't care if it's linux by The_Mutato · · Score: 1, Troll

    >it seems customers don'd mind all >that much if their computer does not run Windows >and doesn't carry an Intel processor. Well, that's news. If someone is desperate enough to buy a PC from walmart (I wouldn't buy it even though it has linux) then I guess Joe Average doesn't care about it as long as it can go on the "Innur-Net". But I can imagine Joe Average saying "LINdows?" is that a new version of windows? Is it newer than Windows Ecks-Pea? What does this shiny button do? Etc. Etc.

  5. So what... by Bob+Vila's+Hammer · · Score: 1, Troll

    This is news? Come on...
    When is big daddy $Billy G. going to buy Wal Mart. Thats news.

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  6. Suck a cheetah's dick! by Wesley+Willis · · Score: 0, Troll

    Suck a polar bear's funky ass!

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  7. Accidental Purchases by SmartGamer · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'd wonder what percentage of (l)users buy one of these, boot them up, and then say... "Hey, what's wrong with this thing?" when it doesn't greet them with any variant of "Windows is now booting."

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  8. AWESOME!!! by Hassman · · Score: 0, Troll

    I totally care about this issue and am very interested on how... oh wait. It was just gas.

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