Wal-Mart to Offer Wal-Mart Notebooks

ducomputergeek writes "Cnet News.com is running an article that Wal-Mart plans to launch its own line of notebook computers. I wonder if these will run Lindows or XP. We've purchased a couple low cost boxes with no OS's for cheap file servers and they've worked pretty well."

OS Licenses

[Anonymous Coward]

We've purchased a couple low cost boxes with no OS's for cheap file servers and they've worked pretty well

Interesting admission indeed. I am calling the SPA right now. I'd like to see those Win2003 server licenses Michael.

Just what I need...

[nacturation]

A Wal-Mart notebook to go right next to my Arby's MP3 player. Although perhaps the logo can be sandblasted off so that users won't die of embarassment.

We're rolling back your CPU cycles!!!

[dswensen]

So let me guess, instead of Clippy you have a little bouncing yellow smiley face that keeps darting in and changing the numbers on all your Excel documents?

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Re:Damn, I'm OLD.

[mattjb0010]

I once walked into a department store, ctrl-alt-del'ed the winblowz screensaver (back in the days when you could), wrote a 2 line asm .com file to reboot the computer, added it to autoexec.bat, and rebooted. Endless rebooting fun, the look on the sales peoples' faces was priceless.

Lindows or XP?

[thanjee]

I wonder if these will run Lindows or XP.

Does this question really need to be asked? They will run FreeBSD of course! :p

Re:Damn, I'm OLD.

[FunWithHeadlines]

I'm older than that. I remember going into Radio Shack when the TRS-80 was first introduced, writing a quick BASIC program:

10 PRINT "Trash 80s suck!"
20 GOTO 10

running it and walking out. Ah, memories!

Can't wait for the notebooks

[GussT]

Let me guess they have spiral binding and come with their own pencil!

Dude: You're getting a Walmart!

[taj]

Thank You.

OS? i don't need no steeenkin' OS

[Gurudev Das]

everybody is interested in seeing Windows or Linux on one of these machines, but how about no OS at all! no crashes, no bugs, heck it won't even start up providing one of the most secure environments you can get :)

Censored

[Lord_Dweomer]

The testers of the new PCs say they run fabulously and are a great low-cost alternative to regular PCs. However, some noted that many of their MP3s either wouldn't play at all, or had certain words censored out.

Re:Damn, I'm OLD.

[FunWithHeadlines]

Cool program. Would have been fun to see.

When I was in high school, and using PDP printer terminals in my computer programming class (yes, this goes way back), I wrote a program that would lock out keyboard input, go into a loop of form feeding paper, and never stop until someone pulled the plug. I then named my little program "SEX.BAS" and put a warning at first when it run that this was a dangerous program, not to touch it.

I left it in our class's shared directory and waited. About 15 minutes later a cluster of male students were sitting around the terminal whispering, when suddenly the paper began form-feeding at high speed and they panicked! Ah, that was fun, preying on the natural curiosity of my fellow geeks.

might be okay....

[wo1verin3]

as long as if something goes wrong and you need to call tech support, they don't have those walmart greeters answering the call....

The $14.95 Wal-Mart Notebook

[rhild]

Wal-mart has found a notebook they can sell for $14.95 that will be a hit with their target
demographic from Ohio Art [world-of-toys.com].

Here are three of them

[yerricde]

Here are your server [freebsd.org] software [apache.org] licenses [linux.org], thank you very much. You can even get a license plate [opengroup.org].

Re:I wonder if it will take off

[CaptainMunchies]

Ubertron Mega Wassus 90009

Dammit! My 90008 is out of style!

Finally

[BigBuckHunter]

A computer light enough to place on my particle-board desk (purchased at wallmart) without breaking it!

No, You shut-up!!!!