Wal-Mart's $200 PC--Sold Out | Linux Today

Wal-Mart’s $200 PC–Sold Out

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 13, 2007

“About two weeks ago, Wal-Mart began selling $200 Linux-based
PC. The initial run was around 10,000 units. Now Wal-Mart is sold
out. Has Linux now found a niche?

“The system sold by Wal-Mart was an Everex’s TC2502 gPC and is
the first mass-market $200 desktop PC. The spec of the system is
very low–1.5 GHz VIA C7 CPU embedded onto a Mini-ITX motherboard,
512MB of RAM and an 80GB hard drive–but this doesn’t matter
because the system does pretty much everything that your average PC
users wants…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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