Walmart.com ditches the OS in new PCs

[Derek Neighbors]

Anyone research this?

It appears the 'windows' PC's come with monitors and are about 200 more 
than the non-windows PC's (which dont have monitors) so the net savings is 
limited to the end consumer.

Now we all know you can get a 17" monitor for under $100 bucks which means 
you save about $100 for not having an O/S, but most folks probably think a 
17" monitor costs like $150-200.  But more than any thing its a convience 
thing.

I'm estatic that this is a good step but it could go further.  I am still 
remembering that Red Hat Linux on my Latitude would have cost me $100 more 
than Windows 98 on same machine.  Go Figure!

-Derek

 On Fri, 22 Feb 2002 alandd@mindspring.com wrote:

> Last week they had Mandrake 8.1 available among the other software, one shelf down from the XP upgrade.
> 
> Alan
> 
> plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us wrote:
> > Ideally, WalMart would have several boxed operating systems on a shelf in
> plain view next to the computers.  There should be a big sign saying,
> "Don't forget to add your own operating system!"  They could have several
> Linux distros, WindowsME, WindowsXP, and FreeBSD, for example.
> ~M
> 
> 
> On 22 Feb 2002, Carl Parrish wrote:
> 
> > Not *quite* as good as them offering a pc with Linux already installed.
> > But a  step in the right direction I think. Does anyone know if Walmart
> > sells Linux CDs?
> >
> > http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/cn/20020221/tc_cn/walmart_com_ditches_the_os_in_new_pcs&cid=70
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