Walmart PC's are gone

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 15:33 -0700, Darrin Chandler wrote:
> 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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heck with google apps, alfresco, jboss or ??? whose gonna need a fat
client beyond a web device anyway?

Craig