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PC Mag Slams Cheap Wal-Mart Linux Desktop
An anonymous reader writes "PC Magazine reviews the $200 Linux desktop wonder sold by Wal-Mart. This desktop sold out quickly and has been cited as proof that consumers are tired of the Windows tax and ready for Linux. Not so according to PC Magazine, which gave the gPC a 1.5 star rating." Previous discussions we've had about system reviews were realistic but not quite so harsh; is this just nitpicking or is the 'shiny' starting to wear off of the cheap Linux PC concept?
look, I'm not trying to flame, but what you do expect? You are selling these things to walmart shoppers, some of the dumbest people on the planet in general. They need to make it perfectly clear that this computer will not run all the software that they sell at walmart or best buy, they can't just pick any PC game off the shelf and expect it to run on this computer as it is not a windows computer. I'm no microsoft advocate, but I'm sure that these walmart customers are buying a PC for more reasons than just surfing the net and they will probably expect that they can buy something like Age of Empires or Civ II or whatever and be able to run it on their computer.