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Wal-Mart's $200 Linux PC Sells Out
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."
How many will be returned when people find out their software doesn't run on their new bargain pc?
Quote "people who know little about calculus or physics" Yes and anything else for that matter.
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North Korea probably bought them all to make a beowolf super cluster and ...take over the world.
People just don't have a real use for a very crappy PC. It's ONLY 200 bucks, but it's still a waste of 200 bucks when careful spending could get you so much more versatility. Why not just buy an Xbox and mod it. For that price and that hardware it's still junk. Good kids computer maybe since they might tear it up. Bad choice though since Linux will pretty much only be useful for surfing the net to most people.
So you're really buying a 200 dollar Linux WebTV system with no remote since it has little use other than it can surf. Then if you buy hardware with it, you get the fun of trying to hook it up. I hope they get some kick ass tech support with that 200 dollar crap PC.
Selling this product will be the easy part. Supporting it is whats going to cost money and without support its not really viable to the target market.
> But it would be a lot more meaningful if we knew how many they sold out of. 10? Big whoop.
Close. 11.
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whoever the fucktardfag is who says this machine couldn't run vista obviously doesn't know shit about vista.
what else should we expect out of a 12 year old fucking lemming douchebag?
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What Walmart is trying to promote here is not just a totally free operating system, that's been usurped by someone who wants to make a quick buck off of Linux, thrown into what amounts to a pile of rubbish from a Chinese sweatshop. They are trying to promote removing the "PC" from making any money what-so-ever in the U.S., ironically the country that invented the PC. These PC's are putting people out of business. Not just MIK$OSF!T1!@. But a lot of hard working hardware engineers and a lot of other people who use MS's API's and operating system to pay the rent. So before you go and cheer on our new communist rulers take into account that sometimes it's not such a bad idea to drop a few bucks on an Intel chip. You know the chip is better, and your money will go back into the wallet of your fellow countrymen (my apologies to the Chinese national readers). The same goes for MS. It's not just a OS you're trying to kill, but a whole house of cards that a LOT of the software industry has built itself upon. Let's never be technological slaves to another country whom is bashing us over the head with our own inventions! What can a decent manufacture do against a POS $200 computer when they have to sell their POS computer for $400+ computer who's only fault is having a great deal of the hardware and software made in the U.S.A.? You can't be FOR labor unions and AGAINST labour unions at the same time. You can't be for shafting MS then complain when they try and recoup the losses by pricing their OS higher than it would have been sans litigation. You can't be FOR extra government regulations and AGAINST the result, higher prices. You can't be for technological innovation and then pay off the guys who ripped it off from the inventors, like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aureal_Semiconductor Creative Labs vs. Aureal. What it comes down to is us vs. them. If we choose to place our money in VIA don't be surprised in another 5 years when VIA acquires Intel. But, hey, yay Linux, and Ubuntu I'm running a few FREE copies myself. Just won't do it on a commie VIA chip.
Hey Twitter. Your main account is still in karma hell I see. How long before this one is too and you have to make another? Just keep that acerbic fanboyism and paranoid hatred of "M$" (lol you spelt it with a dollar sign, I get it lol M$ loves money!) and irrational logic; we'll all catch on to your new one sooner or later. Your brand of insanity is unmistakable.
Woo. Go "M$" - I mean it's a dollar sign! Geddit? Geddit?! ... no. Almost everyone who uses M$ instead of MS are idiots. It's subtle trolling at its best.
And when they get home they won't care. Seriously, for what most people do on their computers ANYTHING will do these days. Hell, BSD would probably work for these people and I hear they just got a GUI last year or so!
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I don't see why anyone would want to "address the issues" when the issues include infantile tripe like "paying $400 for a text editor" (or your clever "monopoly rent" deal), not to mention the ever-hilarious "M$" thing. You are mistaken if you think I am somehow taking issue with his regurgitation of obvious things like the WalMart demographic and whatnot.
I can't really explain it any better than this post. Which, if you are wondering, is a response to a flamebait post in his "twitter" account. There you go: sockpuppets. One less reason to pay any attention whatsoever to him.
Actually, anyone who posts things like these has pretty much forfeited their right to have their "issues" addressed.
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Doesn't matter. 99.999% of these will be installed with Windows anyway within a week (and only that long because that's the first time the machine gets booted).
When you're finished reading and you can point out where I "slag" him, we'll continue this exciting conversation.
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