Wal-Mart And Linspire Offer $498 Laptop

KingFishKingFish
edited December 2004 in Science & Tech
Wal-Mart and Linspire announced on Monday that they are now offering a basic Linux laptop for under US$500, the first laptop to be offered new below that price point.
The Balance laptop has a VIA C3 processor at 1.0GHz, 128 MB of RAM, a 30 GB hard drive, a CD-ROM drive, and a 14-inch screen.

The installed operating system is the Linux distro Linspire 4.5 (formerly Lindows), and the computer comes with typical Lindows software offerings. The installed Internet application and e-mail client is Mozilla (not Firefox/Thunderbird), and OpenOffice is the default office productivity software suite. The computer also comes with a subscription to Lindows' CNR service for three months, which gives users one-click installations for over 1,900 programs.
Source: GEEK.com

Comments

  • SputnikSputnik Worcester, MA
    edited December 2004
    ok... for 500$ i could get that, or i could just wait for dell to have a sale and get something that is ~3 times as fast with Windows XP....

    I'm getting that right, right?
  • fatcatfatcat Mizzou Icrontian
    edited December 2004
    yea it doesnt quite seem like a great price to me either...
  • TheSmJTheSmJ
    edited December 2004
    It'd only be worthwhile if you could easily add RAM and reformat to WinXP.
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited December 2004
    Thing is that C3 1ghz isnt even close to to Intel 1GHz. Its prolly close to half the performance of a P3 1GHz, maybe.
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