Shuttle's $200 Linux PC Part of a Trend? 396
eldavojohn writes "With $200 machines being all the rage these days, it's surprising that more coverage hasn't been given to Shuttle's KPC which is an Intel Celeron processor, a 945GC chipset, 512MB of memory and either a 60GB or 80GB HDD. With deals like these, will Linux become the dominant home operating system for the thrifty?"
no CD/DVD drive bay? (Score:4, Informative)
Prefer a $200 laptop (Score:3, Informative)
I've already got several desktops and laptops, but would buy one of these in a second, given the chance.
Re:Why the thrifty? More like the reasonable (Score:4, Informative)
Re:no CD/DVD drive bay? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:QUICKBOOKS (Score:3, Informative)
http://www.intuit.com/about_intuit/press_room/press_release/2007/06-13.jhtml [intuit.com]
Re:no CD/DVD drive bay? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Probably not (Score:3, Informative)
Re:OSX/Windows/Linux are not even on the same scal (Score:3, Informative)
Go to about:config and set "ui.allow_platform_file_picker" to false. That'll give you the older and more sensible Mozilla file picker instead of the Gnome abomination.
Re:A potential buisness model problem... (Score:3, Informative)
Anything productive by Adobe? MS Office? iTunes? Cakewalk? Fruity Loops? Starry Night? How about some software for my Garmin iQue M5? There are just a few of the software packages I run that aren't on Linux and I don't see any Linux equivalent of. And please, if you're going to mention VMing I may as well just have a Windows machine. It doesn't count.
You can't have those particular proprietary programs. But with the exception of iTunes, you will find programs which do the same things exactly as well. The ones you are looking for are: