A Review of the $200 Wal-Mart Linux PC

bcrowell writes "Wal-Mart's new $200 Linux PC has generated a lot of buzz in geek circles. Although they're sold out of stores, I bought one for my daughter via mail order, and have written up a review of the system. The hardware seems fine for anyone but a hardcore gamer, but the pre-installed gOS flavor of Ubuntu has a lot of rough edges."

Comments

Re:Hardcore gamer?

[PopeRatzo]

But most pc users will need more than 512k to run all their spyware, trojans and worms.

Re:Ubuntu rough around the edges

[bigstrat2003]

Personal opinions about Mac OS aside, there's a huge problem with your plan: you need to buy a Mac, and last I checked, the hardware was stupidly underpowered (mini), badly designed (G5 iMac), or expensive, albeit awesome (PowerMac). Until such day as that is no longer the case, I can't recommend Apple hardware to anyone.