$200 PC at Wal-Mart
My often repeated hope for a low-cost appliance PC is coming closer to realization. Wal-Mart will be selling an Ubuntu system from Everex for $200. Whether it will be as easy to use as a TV, I don’t know but it’s a step in the right direction. Will anybody buy it? Probably not, unless it gets some marketing muscle. Anyway, PC World reports:
The Everex gPC (the “g” stands for Google), goes on sale tomorrow at Wal-mart and is being touted by the company as a close collaboration between the PC maker, the open source community and Google that is intended to “bring Linux to the masses.”
The machine uses a 1.5GHz Via C7-D processor, Via UniChrome Pro IGP graphics core, and comes equipped with 512MB of memory, an 80GB hard drive, a DVD-ROM/CD-RW combo drive, and has built-in Ethernet.
Update: I should add that the price does not include a video display.
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