The Sellout of Wal-Mart's $200 PC
.........Go gOS!!
There was a great deal of discussion about it, to be sure -- but it was still overshadowed by the widespread analysis of the fact that Wal-Mart ) Latest News about Wal-Mart sold out of its US$200 Linux PC.
"The manager at an Iowa Wal-Mart said he had 80 to go on sale at 8:00 a.m., and they were all sold at 8:01," noted Anonymous Coward on Slashdot, where more than 600 comments were posted on the topic. "People began lining up at 6 in the morning, and they gave slips to the first 80 in line. I went in at 5 p.m. and people were still trying to buy them."
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There was a great deal of discussion about it, to be sure -- but it was still overshadowed by the widespread analysis of the fact that Wal-Mart ) Latest News about Wal-Mart sold out of its US$200 Linux PC.
"The manager at an Iowa Wal-Mart said he had 80 to go on sale at 8:00 a.m., and they were all sold at 8:01," noted Anonymous Coward on Slashdot, where more than 600 comments were posted on the topic. "People began lining up at 6 in the morning, and they gave slips to the first 80 in line. I went in at 5 p.m. and people were still trying to buy them."
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