Walmart Offers Sub-$500 laptop With Linspire

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Walmart Offers Sub-$500 laptop With Linspire 589

Posted by timothy on Monday December 20, 2004 @07:15PM from the how-much-is-that-in-simolians dept.

LehiNephi writes "Cnet reports that Walmart is offering a sub-$500 notebook running Linspire. The specs are less-than impressive: a 1GHz VIA C3 processor, 128 MB RAM, 30GB hard drive, and a plain vanilla CD-ROM. Seems overpriced for what you get, but cheap nonetheless. And yes, it does run Linux."

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Seems cheap for what you get ... (Score:5, Funny)

by airrage ( 514164 ) writes: on Monday December 20, 2004 @07:17PM (#11141750) Homepage Journal

... you must be unfamiliar with Wal-Mart.

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Runs Linux (Score:5, Funny)

by Vampyre_Dark ( 630787 ) writes: on Monday December 20, 2004 @07:17PM (#11141751)

It DOES run linux?
Well, I think this is the reason there are no posts. ^_^

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Hmmm.... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday December 20, 2004 @07:17PM (#11141752)

The "Rectractable Cable Lock for Laptops" seems a little unnessecary for this thing...

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What everyone wants to know.. (Score:5, Funny)

by x.Draino.x ( 693782 ) writes: on Monday December 20, 2004 @07:18PM (#11141759)

But can it run Windows?

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Plain AND Vanilla! (Score:3, Funny)

by JDRipper ( 610930 ) writes: on Monday December 20, 2004 @07:18PM (#11141763)

"and a plain vanilla CD-ROM" Wow! Both plain AND vanilla! Walmart to the T!

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Excellent way to reach out (Score:0, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday December 20, 2004 @07:22PM (#11141800)

It's not so much the people who buy this from Wal-Mart who we need to reach out to, but rather, the people who steal it from them. People who buy from Wal-Mart are generally poor and live in areas with a lot of black people, so when the black people steal these laptops, they'll be introduced to the wonders of Linux! This is what I call bridging the technology gap. Good to see some much deserved benevolence from corporate America, for once!

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Re:Notebooks for $500.00? (Score:3, Funny)

by badboy_tw2002 ( 524611 ) writes: on Monday December 20, 2004 @07:38PM (#11141947)

If you're buying a computer from Wal-Mart odds are you do not know how to install windows. You probably don't even know how to turn the thing on. You probabably do know how to skin a deer, and you probably own a t-shirt that says "Who Farted?"

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Re:What everyone wants to know.. (Score:5, Funny)

by RollingThunder ( 88952 ) writes: on Monday December 20, 2004 @07:41PM (#11141975)

Within... *hdd grinds* certain defi-*pause*nitions of *hdd melts down due to excessive paging* fine.

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Re:What everyone wants to know.. (Score:5, Funny)

by IO ERROR ( 128968 ) * writes: <error@ioe[ ]r.us ['rro' in gap]> on Monday December 20, 2004 @07:41PM (#11141976) Homepage Journal

It can run Windows but you're going to have a hard time finding drivers for the Linmodem.

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Re:Windows (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday December 20, 2004 @07:42PM (#11141982)

If you shop at Wal-Mart why do need a bank?
How 'bout using the liquor store with the big sign "We Cash Checks".

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Re:What everyone wants to know.. (Score:5, Funny)

by WIAKywbfatw ( 307557 ) writes: on Monday December 20, 2004 @07:51PM (#11142051) Journal

Don't worry, the modem works fine under Line.

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Re:Plain AND Vanilla! (Score:3, Funny)

by Eric Smith ( 4379 ) * writes: on Monday December 20, 2004 @07:54PM (#11142080) Homepage Journal

I really object to the use of the phrase "plain vanilla". Vanilla is very tasty, and is not at all plain. If you doubt it, try making some homemade ice cream without vanilla some time.
Eddys (known in other markets as Dreyers) used to offer a double vanilla ice cream. Yum!

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Re:I wonder if they include a disclamer... (Score:4, Funny)

by SoCalChris ( 573049 ) writes: on Monday December 20, 2004 @07:55PM (#11142091) Journal

If I were I teenager and my parents got me this computer, I would be plenty pissed off. If not immediately, then as soon as I tried to buy gaming software for it.

And if I were your parent, I'd smack your dumb, ingrateful ass around for bitching about the laptop that I just bought you with my hard earned money.

Then I'd make your lazy ass go get a job and buy your own.

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Re:I wonder if they include a disclamer... (Score:5, Funny)

by bm17 ( 834529 ) * writes: <brm@yoyodyne.com> on Monday December 20, 2004 @08:02PM (#11142137)

You just don't undersand! You're not the boss of me! I hate you I hate you I hate you!!!

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Re:Notebooks for $500.00? (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday December 20, 2004 @08:04PM (#11142157)

^ I'm with stupid.

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Re:What everyone wants to know.. (Score:2, Funny)

by Xerp ( 768138 ) writes: on Monday December 20, 2004 @08:06PM (#11142178) Journal

But no-one can get Windows anymore following the recent shutdown of SuprNova and the like... :p

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Re:I wonder if they include a disclamer... (Score:3, Funny)

by EnronHaliburton2004 ( 815366 ) writes: on Monday December 20, 2004 @08:09PM (#11142197) Homepage Journal

"Mooooooooooooooom! You're so unfaiiir! Everyone else has a brand new iMaaaaaaac, Geeeeeze!"

**bee boop beep boop boop be doo***

"Hold on, phone call!"

"Oh, hi Scott! Yah-huh! Yah-huh! Heeeeheehehehehe. Yah-huh! Yah-huh! heheeeehhhee!"

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Re:I wonder if they include a disclamer... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday December 20, 2004 @08:12PM (#11142232)

the pinnacle of thousands of years of math, physics, and engineering
Excuse me for nitpicking, but physics hasn't been around for a thousand years, much less thousands of years... but then, maybe that explains the rest of the post better.

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Re:Way too many stereotypes (Score:0, Funny)

by herbert_axelrod ( 554087 ) writes: on Monday December 20, 2004 @08:13PM (#11142252)

Please watch the stereotypes. I shop Walmart. I also went to private schools until grad school, where I got my Ph.D. in Statistics. I don't hunt, although I do ski and scuba dive. I also employ programmers for things I design.

cheap bastard...

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Re:Way too many stereotypes (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday December 20, 2004 @08:21PM (#11142317)

So you do have a t-shirt that says "Who farted?"?

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Re:What everyone wants to know.. (Score:2, Funny)

by jamesbuko ( 840871 ) writes: <jamesbuko@gma[ ]com ['il.' in gap]> on Monday December 20, 2004 @08:41PM (#11142480)

My girlfriend's father is "most people". He doesn't know or care what the OS is or the applications' names are as long as he has email, web access and bare-bones word processing...

and of lastly porn..lots of it.

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Re:Way too many stereotypes (Score:2, Funny)

by powerlinekid ( 442532 ) writes: on Monday December 20, 2004 @08:46PM (#11142512)

You have a Ph.D in stats and you're using that to prove you're not an idiot?

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Re:Seems cheap for what you get ... (Score:5, Funny)

by the unbeliever ( 201915 ) writes: <chris+slashdot&atlgeek,com> on Monday December 20, 2004 @08:48PM (#11142525) Homepage

that .1ghz also equates to about double the performance of the "1ghz" VIA C3 chip.

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Re:Microsoft and Walmart. (Score:3, Funny)

by westlake ( 615356 ) writes: on Monday December 20, 2004 @08:53PM (#11142556)

It is because neither cares if they have friends. They have customers. To a company, customers are infinitely more important than friends.
a pity to post this as an A,C,. because it deserves to be modded up.

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Re:Way too many stereotypes (Score:2, Funny)

by upsidedown_duck ( 788782 ) writes: on Tuesday December 21, 2004 @12:43AM (#11144306)

I shop Walmart. I also went to private schools until grad school, where I got my Ph.D. in Statistics.

I think you meant to say: "I work at Walmart. How may I help you?"

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Seems cheap for what you get ... (Score:5, Funny)

Runs Linux (Score:5, Funny)

Hmmm.... (Score:1, Funny)

What everyone wants to know.. (Score:5, Funny)

Plain AND Vanilla! (Score:3, Funny)

Excellent way to reach out (Score:0, Funny)

Re:Notebooks for $500.00? (Score:3, Funny)

Re:What everyone wants to know.. (Score:5, Funny)

Re:What everyone wants to know.. (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Windows (Score:1, Funny)

Re:What everyone wants to know.. (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Plain AND Vanilla! (Score:3, Funny)

Re:I wonder if they include a disclamer... (Score:4, Funny)

Re:I wonder if they include a disclamer... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Notebooks for $500.00? (Score:1, Funny)

Re:What everyone wants to know.. (Score:2, Funny)

Re:I wonder if they include a disclamer... (Score:3, Funny)

Re:I wonder if they include a disclamer... (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Way too many stereotypes (Score:0, Funny)

Re:Way too many stereotypes (Score:2, Funny)

Re:What everyone wants to know.. (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Way too many stereotypes (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Seems cheap for what you get ... (Score:5, Funny)

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Re:Way too many stereotypes (Score:2, Funny)

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