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Wal-Mart's $200 Linux PC Sells Out

Posted by kdawson on from the ok-there's-a-market-for-it dept.

hankmt writes "About a week ago Wal-Mart began selling a $200 Linux machine running on a 1.5 ghz VIA C7 processor and 512 MB of RAM. While the specs are useless for Vista, it works blazingly fast on Ubuntu with the Enlightenment Window Manager. The machine is now officially sold out of their online warehouses (it may still be available in some stores). And the product sales page at wal-mart.com is full of glowing reviews from new and old Linux users alike."

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  1. It's been like this by Eddi3 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It sold out much faster then this; It's been out of stock for at least 2 days.

  2. I don't trust the reviews by Ash-Fox · · Score: 5, Interesting

    There is something very wrong with the reviewers, I keep clicking "Read all reviews by this reviewer", and the reviewer only did this single review on a product. Which is unusual for people who write their reviews on products (usually they'll have a few others they've written reviews for). They all write excellent English, no grammar mistakes, punctuation mistakes or anything.

    I suspect manipulation of reviews.

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    Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
  3. Re:lol dollars by SL+Baur · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I've yet to meet someone who hates Microsoft Office Microsoft Office is total hell. The menus take two or three clicks to get right on a notebook for me. I hate it, I hate it, I hate it. (Star Office on Sun's is a little better, but not by much).

    Microsoft Office has an interface designed in Hell by idiots. I hate it. HATE IT.

    You can't do anything that isn't programmed in. My boss, who is a Microsoft fan, fumbles around in its interface, I've watched him. The emperor is wearing no clothes.

    You just think it's OK because you don't know anything better.

    Yeah, I know I"ll be modded down for this. Whatever. Star Office sucks, but so does Microsoft Office.

    I was impressed by what is now known as Microsoft Word before it was bought out by Microsoft, but that was a couple decades ago. What is also impressive is that I see the same kind of fumbling around in a twisty maze of GUI menus all alike that I saw when someone was once trying to impress me with Microsoft Windows for Workgroups. Not more than a couple of years previous, I had people screaming at me at my workplace to not require any of that in the UI guidelines I was writing for that section of the company.
  4. Re:Useful user reviews - oh wait by Bo'Bob'O · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Not fast enough for XP? I know the C7 isn't the fastest machine, but, I don't buy it. I ran XP on my PII-350 laptop with 300 some MB of ram for years without problem. I only upgraded for the luxury, really. If I'd just put in a flash blocker, I could still be happily browsing Slashdot and doing work on it. I suppose it's possible that a PII-350 could out preform a 1.7 ghz chip of a different architecture, but it dosn't seem likely, could anyone enlighten me here?