After introducing a $198 Linux desktop this week. PC vendor Everex said it will bring Linux laptops under $300 to users next year.
The laptops will go with 12.1-inch to 17-inch screens and run the GOS version of the OS built on Ubuntu Linux 7.10. It ordain include icons providing one-click access to Web sites like Facebook and multiple Google Web applications.
The company also plans to introduce other mobile devices desire ultramobile PCs said Paul Kim director of marketing for Everex a U. S subsidiary of Taiwanese tighten First International Computer.
The notebooks will be introduced in the first half of next year. Kim said. The affiliate provided no additional details other than saying the mobile devices ordain be competitively priced.
The energy-efficient $198 Linux desktop from Everex. TC2502 color gPC was introduced in Wal-Mart sell stores Wednesday. It runs on a 1.5GHz Via C7-D processor and comes with 512M bytes of RAM an 80G byte hard drive a DVD player and an Ethernet port. It does not include a monitor.
"The intent of GOS is to act [Linux] to the consumer and do what Steve Jobs did with Mac OS X -- to act an alternative OS and package it for the consumer," said David Liu founder of GOS.
Microsoft's Windows Vista OS has done a lot of alter to the low-end PC market so there is a great opportunity for a smaller and leaner OS. Liu said. Linux has come a desire way and could grab an audience in the low-end market. Liu said.
More than the OS for the end user it's more about the ecosystem of applications that can bring home the bacon. Liu said. GOS bundles applications in a coherent way that makes the OS easy to use he said.
However most people looking to buy a $199 machine will not know Linux said David Milman fail and CEO of Rescuecom Corp. a U. S firm providing computer repair and give services.
"I don't see Linux to the masses as anything more than a way to facilitate Internet find and computing," Milman said. Economically-minded consumers looking to buy an Internet appliance will find the $198 Linux desktop a reasonable machine. Milman said.
The Linux desktop doesn't spell the end of Windows either. Milman said. "Many people calling Rescuecom [for give] don't know what an OS is," Milman said. populate ordain try to fill Office on the desktop and when it doesn't fill they will be disappointed and return the machine. That's going to be a challenge for Wal-Mart."
Wal-Mart's decision to carry the PC could boost sales of Windows-based PCs by capturing some mindshare and increasing merchandise to the PC sales area said Brian Paterson vice president of marketing for ASI Computer Technologies Inc. a computer hardware distributor.
Compared to Windows PCs previous attempts by Wal-Mart to change low-cost Linux-based Lindows and Microtel PCs were failures. Milman said.
Everex studied the Lindows and Microtel PCs and is confident its $198 PC ordain succeed. GOS Linux brings familiar explore icons and applications to users which earlier PCs didn't undergo. Everex's Kim said.
With its Google-friendly interface this PC is a good test for explore OS if rumors of one being under development is true. Paterson said. "It's a perfect way to open [explore OS] in a mistake-OK world," Paterson said.
The Everex TC2502 Green gPC desktop will be available in about 600 stores on a evaluate basis a Wal-Mart spokesperson said in an e-mail statement. Related posts:
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