Sub $200 PC a sell out at Wal-Mart and ZaReason

This is a very interesting machine. Looks like a winner for linux. It would be nice if it came in a smaller physical package. According to what I have read Walmart decided to put it in a "big box" because their customers associate this with a "powerful" computer but that the components themselves occupy quite a small space.......

I think it comes like it is directly from Taiwan - see http://www.everex.com/

best, Wolfgang

Quoting:It would be nice if it came in a smaller physical package

good point, on the other hand, some people like the expandability of a big tower. What would be even better is if they offer another model that comes with a pizza case instead of tower. Like the Small Form Factor desktops from HP.

http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF04a/12454-12454-64...

Wolfgang, Yeah I know. My impression from my reading was though that everex built it to Walmart specs.

Abe, Good idea. I'd like a nice quiet 6"x4"x0.5" box myself ;-)

Hmm guys, I do have a HTPC or Pizza-style machine around here (see http://wolfgang.lonien.de/?p=175), but that makes quite a lot of things difficult, if you can't even put in a full-height TV tuner card... there are a lot of fine cards I'd like to try, but...

Otherwise, it's great. Too bad the company went out of business already.

I think part of it is that the "large" standard sized boxes are cheap, power supplies, fans, disk-drive covers, all very standard, available in large numbers, and therefore cheap.

Going to a small form-factor is nice, but it becomes more and more custom. Remember the $2K+ fanless PCs that were just large enough to fit the CD drive?