HP Sells Cheap FreeDOS PC in China

Posted by michael on Friday December 10, 2004 @10:50AM from the nuts-and-bolts dept.

Johan writes "HP has started selling a Yuan 3,999 ($483) PC in China. The cool part is that it runs FreeDOS! Not sure why FreeDOS was chosen, but I suspect they expect it to be replaced with Linux or Windows by the user. By not having to pay for Windows, they are able to include better hardware. They probably didn't want the support burden of bundling the PC with a Linux distribution." And while we're on China, Cringely has some prognostication and speculation about IBM's sale of their PC division to a Chinese company.

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Let me get it out of the way... by Mr.+Bad+Example · 2004-12-10 11:02 · Score: 4, Funny

Sure, you can install Windows or Linux on these...but an hour later, you'll just have to reinstall.
Re:HP assumes PC will get pirated Win-XP? by maniac_inside · 2004-12-10 11:25 · Score: 3, Funny

Well I am reminded of a recent surevey by Gartner

"80% of all PC's shipped with Linux are made to run pirated versions of Windows XP"

Anyway a recent undisclosed survey has found

"100% of all PC's shipped with FREEDOS are made to run pirated versions of Windows XP"