$199 gPC Back in Stock at Wal-Mart
by John Little on 20/11/2007
Information Week has an update on the popular new box:
Wal-Mart introduced the gPC earlier this month but it quickly sold out online. It’s “been one of the top performing desktop computers on Walmart.com,” a spokesman for the company told InformationWeek last week.
The gPC is one of the first Linux-based desktop machines to be offered for sale by a major retailer. As such, it could be an indicator of open source software’s potential for success in the consumer market.
The gPC comes pre-loaded with the gOS operating system — a Linux variant — and a 1.5 GHz processor manufactured by Intel (NSDQ: INTC) clone maker Via Technologies. The rest of the specs include an 80 Gbyte hard drive and 512 Mbyte of DDR 2 memory.
There’s no monitor included, but buyers get stereo speakers and a DVD-ROM/CD-RW drive.
As for software, the gPC comes with the free OpenOffice.org 2.2 productivity suite. The suite, which includes word processing, spreadsheet and presentation applications, recently won backing from IBM.
The gPC uses a slick new flavor of linux, called gOS, that’s based on Ubuntu 7.10. That makes it awesome by default. You see it in action in this short video. I’ll probably pick one up for use as a server. You can check out the detailed specs on the PC’s Wal-Mart page.
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