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A Review of the $200 Wal-Mart Linux PC

Posted by kdawson on from the green-around-the-edges dept.

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."

3 of 235 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Hardcore gamer? by PopeRatzo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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

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    You are welcome on my lawn.
  2. Re:Ubuntu rough around the edges by bigstrat2003 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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.

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    "16MB (fuck off, MiB fascists)" - The Mighty Buzzard
  3. Re:Ubuntu rough around the edges by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ubuntu is not rough around the edges. If Ubuntu is rough around the edges, then so is every other operating system, including windows.

    I base this commment on the fact that I hear the exact same style of questions you posed, only they were for ms office/xp.

    I can rattle off huge lists of things that are easier to do in XP, that are not as easy in OS X. Does this mean that OS X is rough around the edges? Nope.

    I can create an equally long list of things that Ubuntu handles more gracefully then XP. Does this mean that XP is rough around the edges? Nope.

    XP is what it is.

    Ubuntu is what it is.

    OS X is what it is.

    I don't see how you got modded up. Your paragraph isn't worth the bits used to transmit it.