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Title: A strange first, buying PC's without Windows
Post by: System on February 22, 2002, 09:23:26 PM

From News.com (http://news.com) - comes a story about Walmart.com now selling PC machines without an OS.

Read the Original News.com Article (http://news.com.com/2100-1017-842375.html)

While most of you will question whether or not this is Amiga related, the fabulous part is the bigger picture that companies are starting to realize that;

1) not everyone wants Windows
2) Windows is usually one of the most expensive pieces included with most store-bought machines.  
3) Get rid of Windows, and they can sell a lot more machines to a lot more people.

Hats off to Wal-Mart for being the first major retail chain to truly recognize that fact.

Title: Re: A strange first, buying PC's without Windows
Post by: teo on February 23, 2002, 01:59:54 AM

sounds good at a glance, until you realise that the only OS that is going to gain from this is linux...

Title: Re: A strange first, buying PC's without Windows
Post by: Comi on February 23, 2002, 02:57:37 AM

 8-)  8-)  Yea.  what we have from that...?

Title: Re: A strange first, buying PC's without Windows
Post by: System on February 27, 2002, 05:47:14 AM

Now who says the *only* OS to benifit will be
Linux?  There's other peecee OSs you can buy,
too, you know!

You might still even be able to buy BeOS!

 :-D

Besides, now that you can buy the Amithlon and AmigaXL packages online and install them...