Every Wal-mart picture prominently advertised these as "Lindows certified"
with a fine logo that was not clickable, nor did it explain exactly what that meant.
I didn't realize Cyrix CPUs were still being used in computers...
The link to Wal-mart at the Lindows homepage brought up a $200 machine with OS
It sure looks like a bait'n'switch to get you in the door with non-Intel and non-AMD
For TWICEthePRICE(tm)... you get $12 more hard drive capacity, DDR RAM at a $12 premium,
a $12 floppy, a modem certainly adding no more than $12 to the cost.
Oh yeah, and Joe Consumer sees twice the MHz on the package for TWICEthePRICE(tm)
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I guess my 24MB Dreamcast running Doom isn't so bad after all -- and I get the ability to Telnet anywhere as root with no password...
Maybe HP will call this the DNR2002... I would surely pull-the-plug on this terminally bad idea.
I'd even encourage not releasing any potential hacks that enable sharing between units -- let this spawn of Microsoft die before December 25th
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And for those people scouring Ebay in a few months to pick up their gfx cards for friends --
http://www.visiontek.com/drivers_3_ver15.shtml
-- It never hurts to have the older, final Wintendo drivers regardless of generic reference driver availability. Downloading SBLIVE! updated drivers last evening took over an hour just holding in the queue (850+ people ahead of me) forced to keep that everychanging popup ad window open until it finally provided notification and the download link.
Grab drivers while the body is still warm
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Regardless of generic reference drivers, it can't hurt to grab the WQHL zips for Wintendo use
http://www.visiontek.com/detonator4.shtml
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with a fine logo that was not clickable, nor did it explain exactly what that meant.
I didn't realize Cyrix CPUs were still being used in computers ...
It sure looks like a bait'n'switch to get you in the door with non-Intel and non-AMD
For TWICEthePRICE(tm) ... you get $12 more hard drive capacity, DDR RAM at a $12 premium,
a $12 floppy, a modem certainly adding no more than $12 to the cost.
Oh yeah, and Joe Consumer sees twice the MHz on the package for TWICEthePRICE(tm)
I guess my 24MB Dreamcast running Doom isn't so bad after all -- and I get the ability to Telnet anywhere as root with no password...
Maybe if the "technical advisors" to my Congressman (for those 'complicated' issues) could even manage to parse 1 line of the forms or headers
dialup-66-141-xx-yyy.dial.hstntx.swbell.net
206.180.xxx.yy.adsl.hal-pc.org
cs24167-x-y.houston.rr.com
207-218-xxx-yyy.ev1.net
*.hou.wt.net
At least HALF of the non-AOL mail sent from people's homes in my district come from the few ISPs in town with 15,000+ customers.
Maybe HP will call this the DNR2002 ... I would surely pull-the-plug on this terminally bad idea.
I'd even encourage not releasing any potential hacks that enable sharing between units -- let this spawn of Microsoft die before December 25th
And for those people scouring Ebay in a few months to pick up their gfx cards for friends -- http://www.visiontek.com/drivers_3_ver15.shtml -- It never hurts to have the older, final Wintendo drivers regardless of generic reference driver availability. Downloading SBLIVE! updated drivers last evening took over an hour just holding in the queue (850+ people ahead of me) forced to keep that everychanging popup ad window open until it finally provided notification and the download link.
Regardless of generic reference drivers, it can't hurt to grab the WQHL zips for Wintendo use http://www.visiontek.com/detonator4.shtml