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Friday, August 30, 2002

PC prices drop to $199

One of the nonprofits I'm engaged with is working on setting up e-learning classrooms in places like Pakistan and Afghanistan. One of the costliest aspects of such an initiative used to be the hardware. Not any more according to News.com:

Wal-Mart early this year began offering low-priced PCs assembled by Microtel Computer Systems through its e-commerce site. The cheapest previous offering was a $299 model outfitted with an 850MHz Duron processor from Advanced Micro Devices and with Lindows, a version of the Linux operating system intended to be compatible with some Windows applications. A Microtel PC with a 900MHz Duron but no operating system also sells for $299.

The new $199 PC, available now at Wal-Mart's shopping site, will use Lindows and an 800MHz version of Via's C3 processor. It does not come with a monitor.

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