I wouldn't expect Blazing Speed (tm), but my guess is that it would run acceptably well. Certainly, 512mb of RAM works out well enough on my personal desktop, and that's what Linux gets the most finicky about, in my experience.
I'm not sure I would pay $600 for it, though. It seems like CompUSA and friends are advertising $600 laptops with some frequency now, and, from what I recall, they're much, much faster. If you're not afraid of buying used (as your next post implies), http://www.compgeeks.com has a "factory reconditioned" 1.3ghz Pentium-M for $720 (not including shipping) that more or less slaughters the linked Walmart notebook in every way. If $600 is your magic number, there's also some 2.0ghz P4s for purchase. Final note: the Walmart laptop doesn't have any wireless support, according to the page. -DMZ On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 08:27 -0400, J. Milgram wrote: > Walmart has a pretty cheap laptop based on a 1.2 Mhz C3, and it would > seem to fit the bill, and I'm tempted. > > $600, 512 Mb RAM, DVD/CDROM, ethernet & wireless. > http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?product_id=3595030 > > But have been reading some slightly negative things about the chip on > the web (slower than one would expect, won't handle Pentium-optimized > binaries). Anyone have any experience to share on this? > > The machine comes with Lindows so at least there's hope (I'd scrap it > though, and install Slackware). > > Judah
