smart computer use?

I bet you wish you knew about it. Actually it’s not much to get worked up about, but it’s a good sign of the times.

About two weeks ago, Wal-Mart began selling $200 Linux-based PC. The initial run was around 10,000 units. Now Wal-Mart is sold out. Has Linux now found a niche?

Wal-Mart’s $200 PC – sold outThe system sold by Wal-Mart was an Everex’s TC2502 gPC and is the first mass-market $200 desktop PC. The spec of the system is very low – 1.5 GHz VIA C7 CPU embedded onto a Mini-ITX motherboard, 512MB of RAM and an 80GB hard drive – but this doesn’t matter because the system does pretty much everything that your average PC users wants.

Has Windows outgrown the average user?

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Google already does a bunch of other stuff pretty damn well.

A Google operating system? Some are dreaming. I would venture to guess that an operating system engineered by Google would probably be pretty useful.

Anyways, click here to read more and to get excited about the possibility of a Google operating system.

Based on the products that I already like from Google, I bet I’d like an operating system that they came up with. But at the same time Linux is very nice.