$298 Wal-Mart PC Has OO.org, No Crapware

Posted by kdawson on Thursday July 19, 2007 @01:37AM from the tell-me-again-why-dell-can't-do-this dept.

cristarol writes "Wal-Mart has begun selling a $298 PC (Everex IMPACT GC3502). It comes with Windows Vista Home Basic and OpenOffice.org 2.2, as well as a complete lack of crapware: 'Users accustomed to being bombarded with trialware offers and seeing their would-be pristine Windows desktops littered with shortcuts to AOL and other applications will likely be pleased at their absence from the GC3502.' The machine is targeted at the back-to-school market. The hardware is nothing to write home about: a 1.5GHz Via C7 with 1GB of RAM and integrated graphics, but as Ars points out, it should be more than capable of performing basic tasks." Dell sells a low-end PC through Wal-Mart for $200 more, and one assumes it is loaded with crapware. Anybody know for sure?

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Re:If it stops them from getting hooked on WOW... by paanta · 2007-07-19 04:59 · Score: 0, Offtopic

So the continent takes millions of years to go a couple of miles and you can't wait until you're back in the lab to figure out where it's going next? Sheesh.