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Walmart Offers Sub-$500 laptop With Linspire

Posted by timothy on from the how-much-is-that-in-simolians dept.

LehiNephi writes "Cnet reports that Walmart is offering a sub-$500 notebook running Linspire. The specs are less-than impressive: a 1GHz VIA C3 processor, 128 MB RAM, 30GB hard drive, and a plain vanilla CD-ROM. Seems overpriced for what you get, but cheap nonetheless. And yes, it does run Linux."

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  1. Seems cheap for what you get ... by airrage · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... you must be unfamiliar with Wal-Mart.

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    1. Re:Seems cheap for what you get ... by the+unbeliever · · Score: 5, Funny

      that .1ghz also equates to about double the performance of the "1ghz" VIA C3 chip.

  2. Runs Linux by Vampyre_Dark · · Score: 5, Funny

    It DOES run linux?
    Well, I think this is the reason there are no posts. ^_^

  3. Hmmm.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    The "Rectractable Cable Lock for Laptops" seems a little unnessecary for this thing...

  4. What everyone wants to know.. by x.Draino.x · · Score: 5, Funny

    But can it run Windows?

    1. Re:What everyone wants to know.. by RollingThunder · · Score: 4, Funny

      Within... *hdd grinds* certain defi-*pause*nitions of *hdd melts down due to excessive paging* fine.

    2. Re:What everyone wants to know.. by IO+ERROR · · Score: 5, Funny

      It can run Windows but you're going to have a hard time finding drivers for the Linmodem.

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    3. Re:What everyone wants to know.. by WIAKywbfatw · · Score: 5, Funny

      Don't worry, the modem works fine under Line.

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    4. Re:What everyone wants to know.. by Xerp · · Score: 2, Funny

      But no-one can get Windows anymore following the recent shutdown of SuprNova and the like... :p

    5. Re:What everyone wants to know.. by jamesbuko · · Score: 2, Funny

      My girlfriend's father is "most people". He doesn't know or care what the OS is or the applications' names are as long as he has email, web access and bare-bones word processing...

      and of lastly porn..lots of it.

  5. Plain AND Vanilla! by JDRipper · · Score: 3, Funny

    "and a plain vanilla CD-ROM" Wow! Both plain AND vanilla! Walmart to the T!

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    1. Re:Plain AND Vanilla! by Eric+Smith · · Score: 2, Funny
      I really object to the use of the phrase "plain vanilla". Vanilla is very tasty, and is not at all plain. If you doubt it, try making some homemade ice cream without vanilla some time.

      Eddys (known in other markets as Dreyers) used to offer a double vanilla ice cream. Yum!

  6. Excellent way to reach out by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    It's not so much the people who buy this from Wal-Mart who we need to reach out to, but rather, the people who steal it from them. People who buy from Wal-Mart are generally poor and live in areas with a lot of black people, so when the black people steal these laptops, they'll be introduced to the wonders of Linux! This is what I call bridging the technology gap. Good to see some much deserved benevolence from corporate America, for once!

  7. Re:Notebooks for $500.00? by badboy_tw2002 · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you're buying a computer from Wal-Mart odds are you do not know how to install windows. You probably don't even know how to turn the thing on. You probabably do know how to skin a deer, and you probably own a t-shirt that says "Who Farted?"

  8. Re:Windows by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    If you shop at Wal-Mart why do need a bank?

    How 'bout using the liquor store with the big sign "We Cash Checks".

  9. Re:I wonder if they include a disclamer... by SoCalChris · · Score: 3, Funny

    If I were I teenager and my parents got me this computer, I would be plenty pissed off. If not immediately, then as soon as I tried to buy gaming software for it.

    And if I were your parent, I'd smack your dumb, ingrateful ass around for bitching about the laptop that I just bought you with my hard earned money.

    Then I'd make your lazy ass go get a job and buy your own.

  10. Re:I wonder if they include a disclamer... by bm17 · · Score: 5, Funny

    You just don't undersand! You're not the boss of me! I hate you I hate you I hate you!!!

  11. Re:Notebooks for $500.00? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    ^ I'm with stupid.

  12. Re:I wonder if they include a disclamer... by EnronHaliburton2004 · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Mooooooooooooooom! You're so unfaiiir! Everyone else has a brand new iMaaaaaaac, Geeeeeze!"

    **bee boop beep boop boop be doo***

    "Hold on, phone call!"

    "Oh, hi Scott! Yah-huh! Yah-huh! Heeeeheehehehehe. Yah-huh! Yah-huh! heheeeehhhee!"

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  13. Re:I wonder if they include a disclamer... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    the pinnacle of thousands of years of math, physics, and engineering

    Excuse me for nitpicking, but physics hasn't been around for a thousand years, much less thousands of years... but then, maybe that explains the rest of the post better.

  14. Re:Way too many stereotypes by herbert_axelrod · · Score: 0, Funny

    Please watch the stereotypes. I shop Walmart. I also went to private schools until grad school, where I got my Ph.D. in Statistics. I don't hunt, although I do ski and scuba dive. I also employ programmers for things I design.

    cheap bastard...

  15. Re:Way too many stereotypes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    So you do have a t-shirt that says "Who farted?"?

  16. Re:Way too many stereotypes by powerlinekid · · Score: 2, Funny

    You have a Ph.D in stats and you're using that to prove you're not an idiot?

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  17. Re:Microsoft and Walmart. by westlake · · Score: 2, Funny
    It is because neither cares if they have friends. They have customers. To a company, customers are infinitely more important than friends.

    a pity to post this as an A,C,. because it deserves to be modded up.

  18. Re:Way too many stereotypes by upsidedown_duck · · Score: 2, Funny

    I shop Walmart. I also went to private schools until grad school, where I got my Ph.D. in Statistics.

    I think you meant to say: "I work at Walmart. How may I help you?"

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