November 20, 2007
It’s Baaaack! The Everex-WalMart $199 PC that is.
This is an update. Article here.
If you go and read the specs you won’t be impressed. But that is not the point. It’s a Ma Frickert machine. But for the geeky of us that might turn their nose up at this, let me wet your appetite –
- Rip the hard drive out and drop in a 1Tb drive. Load Linux Media Server or MythTV. As a dedicated machine it has more than enough power. And you can’t beat the all up price of about $450 if you shop carefully.
- Linux Gateway box. Add a cheap ethernet adapter. Blow gOS away and load Clarkconnect on it. I have this board and config running at home. 3years, no burps. Only time is has been down is when the power goes out.
- As a Hackintosh. Yep, a poor man’s mac-mini. All you need to do is replace the OS, do a bit of tweaking and bam!
I am sure you can come up with other ideas. When I can get my hands on a WiMax card and service its going in the box too.
Filed under tech tips by Dr. Dog
Comments on It’s Baaaack! The Everex-WalMart $199 PC that is. »
Got mine delivered tonight (today?), from Walmart - online. Blew away the GOS and installed Ubuntu 7.10 Desktop. Funny thing, when I trued to run the GOS it didn’t recognize my Dell 19 ” flat monitor and I thought - ought oh! But I put in the ubuntu and at first it didn’t recognize it either, but then I put it in again and (get this) moved the mouse around on the screen, and, dunno, maybe it helped it realize what I had - but it recognized the flat monitor fine.
For $200? You can’t beat it.
Will Linux and net based apps take over the low end computer market? | @ 8:49 am
[...] December 10, 2007Will Linux and net based apps take over the low end computer market? With the cost of Microsoft OS’s now consuming over 1/3 of the cost of low end desktop PC’s I believe that the light at the end of the MS-OS tunnel may be the headlight of an oncoming train driven by a penguin. As reported here earlier by our Dr Dog on its sell out release and its return, the single most enabling component in making WalMart’s highly successful $199 PC cost only $199 is a free linux based operating system that is hot wired to access web based apps. Combined with what is increasingly available low cost broadband, it’s an MS killer. Opinion — Sometimes, several unrelated changes come to a head at the same time, with a result no one could have predicted. The PC market is at such a tipping point right now and the result will be millions of Linux-powered PCs in users’ hands. [...]