On Wed, 2003-04-30 at 20:45, Matt Darnell wrote: > > I noticed that Sam's Club is now selling a Linux PC for $280. All that is > > missing is a monitor and floppy drive. It comes with a 20 GB hard drive, > > 256MB RAM, 4 USB ports, Linux compatible 56K modem. I don't know which > > distribution was installed on it; couldn't find it on the box. I seem to > > recall that the processor speed was 2 GH or somewhere close to that. > Usually > > they sell these on their web site but this one was in the Pearl City > store. > > > > Does anyone know about the reliability of these machines? > > > I have a client who bought 4 of them. They hated them. The on demand > software was very unreliable. They returned all of them. They had returned > them before I got my hands on them. > > -Matt
Are you talking about Lindows click-n-run? Yes it is terrible. That isn't a measure of hardware quality though. Warren
