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Shuttle's $200 Linux PC Part of a Trend?

Posted by timothy on from the love-it-already dept.

eldavojohn writes "With $200 machines being all the rage these days, it's surprising that more coverage hasn't been given to Shuttle's KPC which is an Intel Celeron processor, a 945GC chipset, 512MB of memory and either a 60GB or 80GB HDD. With deals like these, will Linux become the dominant home operating system for the thrifty?"

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  1. Re:Teh REAL Lunix customer by blixel · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Your average user will love this computer: it lets them spend $200, and they can just throw a pirated copy of Windows on it.

    Since the $200 Shuttle doesn't come with an optical drive, I don't think the average user will be technically savvy enough to install Windows on it.