Sears sells $199 Linux PC

[telic]

@Sears ...


Sears.com Sells $199 Linux PC

Linspire, Inc. announces that Sears is selling a $199 Linux PC, after $100 mail-in rebate in their online store running Linspire's Freespire 2.0 Ubuntu Linux based OS.

The hardware is put together by Mirus Innovations, a North America PC manufacturer.

So Sears is going directly against Wal-mart's Everex $199 PC.

Looking at the hardware specifications of the Everex PC and the Mirus PC two main differences jump out. The $199 Linux PC sold via Sears has a 1.6GHz Intel Celeron CPU with 1GB RAM, while the Everex PC runs a 1.5GHz VIA C7-D CPU with 512MB of RAM.

I assume Everex will soon step up their RAM to match the Sears Linux PC offer.

Press Release @ Linspire

[notwen]

Cool to see another major retailer seling a pre-installed Linux PC, although it is only online and not in-stores in front of customers. Not sure how many people knowingly go to the sears website looking to purchase a PC. I guess any availability of Linux PC options are better than none at all. =]

[Balazs_noob]

too bad i don't live in the USA
very nice price...

[xArv3nx]

Very nice for us Freespire users.

Why did they not choose to do Linspire? Probably would've made it more expensive.

[Black Mage]

On these computers, I'm betting the most expensive part is the chasis.

[tdrusk]

hmmm...

I like how they give you a gig of ram, but the processor appears to be pretty crappy (according to my research).

[Johnsie]

Thats's a good price. For people not living in the US, I think Tescos are selling something similar. Obviously it'll be a wee bit more expensive in rip-off Britain.

[maniacmusician]

hmmm...

I like how they give you a gig of ram, but the processor appears to be pretty crappy (according to my research).

Exactly. It's a joke; Celerons are complete crap. I used one for a couple of years, and the small amount of cache hinders your performance so much. It's something that can't be fixed by adding more RAM.

[Linuxratty]

I'm guessing so.
Microsoft only gets a cut of the action with Linspire but are left out of the loop with freespire.

[Bungo Pony]

Cool! A Linux PC war

I doubt you'll ever see anything like this in the Windows world