$200 Everex Green PC Now Available

[Nomad559]

http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/10/200-everex-gree.html

Everex's TC2502 gPC is the first mass-market $200 desktop computer, featuring a custom distribution of Ubuntu Linux and headed for selected Wal-Mart stores.

"It's $200, with no gimmicks or subsidies," Everex spokesman David Liu said.

Touted as a "green" machine, it has a 1.5 Ghz VIA C7 CPU embedded in a Mini-ITX motherboard, 512MB of RAM and an 80GB hard drive. Though low-end, with the fast Enlightenment desktop manager (instead of heavier-duty alternatives like Gnome or KDE), the makers say it's more responsive than Vista is, even on more powerful computers.

"It's almost like a Google PC," Liu says, pointing to the desktop's rack of pre-configured links to all of Google's online applications. It is, he says, the mass-market Linux PC we've all been waiting for. "That's our dream. ... we go the final step to make it work out the box, to go the whole nine yards."

[bain_sidhe]

1. But... what about those of us who refuse to shop at Walmart?

I hope they add another distribution channel soon. Like, Costco, perhaps?

[Deja Q]

2. Google PC = thin client; no PC plus a cheap $1000/mo internet connection...

Honey, do you have change for my $1,000,000 bill?