First Mass-Market $200 Linux PC on Sale at Wal-Mart (next to their line of redneck zombie clothing)
Wired.com writes about this new $200 PC running the Enlightenment desktop manager on Ubuntu Linux and powered by a 1.5 Ghz VIA C7 CPU, 512 megs of RAM, and an 80GB drive.
Ubuntu Linux is a very powerful, robust operating system derived from Debian (which is what runs VideoSift). This could be the first big step toward Linux PCs taking over... Okay, so they probably won't take over, but at least they'll become more popular and offer lots more people an affordable computer.
It'd actually be a box very worth buying for simple things such as a development/test server, data backup, or other such tasks.
Here is the item page at WalMart.com, and below are the item description and not-so-detailed specs from that page:
Key Features & Benefits:
- 1.5 GHz Via Technologies C7-D processor
Delivers energy-saving performance- 512 MB of DDR2 system memory
Offers good performance and is expandable to 2 GB- 80 GB hard disk drive
Provides space for documents, games, photos and music- DVD-ROM/CD-RW drive
Lets you play DVDs and burn your own CDs for entertainment and data backup- 10/100 Mbps Ethernet
Connects to a local area network or broadband Internet devices- gOS operating system
Enables you to use the supplied OpenOffice.org 2.2 software suiteSpecifications
Hard Drive Size: 80 GB System RAM: 512 MB Operating System: gOS Model No.: TC2502 Shipping Weight (in pounds): 21.0 Product in Inches (L x W x H): 23.0 x 23.0 x 11.4
(If you don't get the "redneck zombie clothing" reference, see SwampGirl's Halloween Post.)
9 Comments
MarineGunrockShit, the hardware alone is worth that money. Now I can have my own TF2 server!
swampgirlThat is so cheap! And the money I saved on zombie duds I could throw in a nifty fuzzy mouse cover or something
ThylanUpvote... something.
karaidlWhat's bizarre is they also offer a comparable model with a monitor, writable DVD drive, AND Windows Vista Basic for only 100 bucks more. I'd take that one and install Ubuntu myself. You could even run Vista in a virtual machine, should you ever actually need it. (Probably not)
MarineGunrockBut what I don't get is this: Who is Wal-Mart targeting with this? I mean, it's not like your usual Ubuntu user has to rely on Wal-Mart for his hardware...
karaidlSure they could. Ubuntu was designed for the "grandma factor." You're thinking in terms of the stereotypical uber-1337 Linux user. In fact, I think my mom oughta get one of these.
MarineGunrockHmm. I coulda sworn that Macs were made for Grandma.
winkler1It'd be cool if you could rent/try one of these suckers...then they'd just reimage the drive when returned. Too many civilians have an irrational fear of other OS's.
Great point about the next level machine karaidl, too bad about paying the MS tax for nothing.
MarineGunrockAnyone here a Ubuntu vet? I'm havin' some issues that I can't figgr' out with a clean install on my laptop...
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