what can you get for $199?
 

Well you can get a computer...


By dropping software from Microsoft and avoiding "Intel inside," retailer Wal-Mart Stores is offering a $199 computer it says is a hot seller on its Web site, attracting novices looking for a way onto the Internet as well as high-end users wanting a second box.

The promise of a PC replacement -- slimmed down to surf the Web and carry out limited tasks -- has long tantalized the tech world but failed to generate many sales, especially as prices of name brand computers have slid.



found here
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/ptech/1...eut/index.html

well... not bad for 200 bux. but you pay for wut you get.....

is that like one of those internet appliances ?

hey you saw that movie too? no its a real machine dude.. feel free to read about it thats what the link is there for

Doesn't it have like a VIA chip and runs Lindows? :pukey

but no monitor

hell hook it up to a tv for less than the cost of a monitor

what movie ? My old tiger direct catalogs are filled with that kind of crap:yes: :o

whoa... running linux....


arnt modems important for someone buying a basement level computer designed for browsing the net?