Fwd: $200 fast computer...FYI

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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.

 

 

 

The gPC aims to joins a popular gang of low-end economy computers

leading into the holiday season, such as Asus' $300 EeePC Laptop and

VIA's $600 Nanobook. Unlike these machines, however, Everex's latest

model is a full-size desktop, and $100 cheaper than even the slightest

models from Dell or

HP.

 

 

 

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. Normally,

this would simply mark it as unacceptably low-end for use with modern

software. By using 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. "

 

 

 

 

The gPC also has a DVD burner and, for those not drinking the web-app

cool-aid, OpenOffice and lots more local software. There's free phone

support and a regularly updated app called " Faqly " that contains the

latest tech support info for folks stuck offline.

 

 

 

 

 

see

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Instead of this, why not get the $188

two-for-one OLPC box? By one

and another will be sent to a kid in

some third-world country.

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://laptopgiving.org/en/index.php

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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