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Wal-Mart's $200 Linux PCs sell out

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on · 6 comments
DesktopLinux.com; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols 		Mail this story
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Right after Halloween, Wal-Mart introduced Everex's Ubuntu Linux-powered TC2502 gPC for a list price of $198. Two weeks later, they're sold out. Everex tells DesktopLinux that more will be coming though. Wal-Mart only bought an initial run of approximately 10,000 units. For once, Wal-Mart's vaunted supply chain management system failed to predict just how popular an item would be. Wal-Mart offers a similar Everex model with more base memory and Windows Vista Home Basic called the Everex Impact GC3502 Desktop, for $100 more. Wal-Mart still has plenty of those.

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Comments (6)

greggh ·
“This is a great computer. Even without the monitor it works great because of the text to speech program. Sometimes I hook this up to my TV and work from there but other times I just use the text to speech because it tells me exactly what I’m viewing and where to click for other pages on the internet.”

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/allReviews.do?product_id=7754...
ColonelPanik ·
And he has been using it for six months. Must have gone ahead in time (using TuxChick's Linux powered time machine?) or maybe he just works overtime?
jacog ·
Maybe he's a dog, and measures time in dog-years.
Abe ·
This guys is devious and evil. Just being silly, sarcastic, or making fun of the others. Deserves to be choked like Homer does to Bart.

Abe ·
You must be the one..

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