Walmart PC's are gone

[Darrin Chandler]

On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 03:08:51PM -0700, Craig White wrote:
> I think eMachines sort of completely defined the concept of a large
> mass, single production run of specific hardware to meet a price
> point/distribution target - much as Everex has done here.
> 
> It's an interesting approach to marketing and of course...no Microsoft
> tax - and they are trying to copy the Macintosh look/feel  ;-)

The Everex desktops and the Asus eepc laptops are redefining things, for
sure. This is part of the shift that's been occuring for decades. Most
people don't do much actual computing on their computers, and just use
them as thin clients, in a sense: web surfing, gmail for email, maybe
remote desktop to connect to their work system...

My wife has a macbook, and she complains it's too heavy (!). She also
has a moto Q, which she hates (because it's truly awful). What she
really needs is something in between, like the eepc.

Me, I need more horsepower, more memory, more disk space. I make the CPU
work pretty hard sometimes, and make all the fans spin up to full speed.

We both use computers every day as part of our work life and home life.
But we are in radically different market segments. I want a computer. My
wife wants an appliance.

The market segment my wife is in is very, very large.

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