http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/ Engadget Comments for Everex's $200 gPC back in stock at Wal-Mart http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/
Now if they could jam all this into an EEPc form factor (perhaps replace the 3.5" HDD with a 1.8" HDD) and load up a bare bones OEM of XP I would seriously consider buying one, like right now. Hell, even Ubuntu would sell me on this for the same 300 dollar price point.]]>Nov 21st 2007 6:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/
You don't HAVE to run all those bells and whistles that come with Vista, you do know this eh? Ubuntu is free so why not take the copy of Vista at $300... bargain I say.]]>Nov 21st 2007 6:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/
If you don't have 2gb of RAM, you can forget any form of Vista...LOL!!]]>Nov 21st 2007 6:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/
I have a 3.0 GHz P4, 2 GB RAM and a GeForce 7800. The ONLY way I could get Vista Business to run on this computer and be able to do ANYTHING else that was mildly CPU intensive (IE. any game at all) was to format my formerly fresh install and re-install with a whittled down vLite image that had been stripped of all those bells and whistles you mentioned earlier.

Yes, I am aware that you don't need them and no, I am not using them because I removed them from the install package entirely.

Basically what I am running a themed version of XP with a very anal WGA authentication system, because without all those bells and whistles you are talking about, that's all Vista is.

And if you are going to do that, why not just run a stripped down OEM XP anyway? Hence my initial post.

That is why I don't want Vista on anything as anemic as this Everex beast of a PC, and that is why XP or Ubuntu would be a better choice. Free or not, if it sucks and frustrates the user then it's worthless.]]>Nov 21st 2007 6:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/Nov 21st 2007 7:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/Nov 21st 2007 7:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/Nov 21st 2007 7:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/Nov 21st 2007 8:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/
I call bullshit, I have Vista Business on a Pentium M 1.7 with 1 gig of RAM and a Radeon Mobility 9000 and it runs just fine.]]>Nov 21st 2007 9:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/
vista business is running fine on my p4 2.4 512mb of ram and 6200 gpu... It flying as long as I don't do anything too ram intensive(fs2004 and the sims2 run great)]]>Nov 21st 2007 6:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/http://www.htc.com/product/03-product_htcshift.htm]]>Jan 7th 2008 8:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/Nov 21st 2007 6:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/Nov 21st 2007 8:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/
But I just bought a $200 laptop on ebay with a Pentium M 1.5 GHz and Windows XP Pro. Sure it's used - but it's a laptop.

By the way - engadget's new f-ing flash ads are crashing my browser.
]]>Nov 21st 2007 6:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/Nov 21st 2007 9:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/Nov 21st 2007 10:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/MR. ENGADGET, TEAR DOWN THOSE ADS!]]>Nov 21st 2007 11:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/Nov 21st 2007 6:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/Nov 23rd 2007 3:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=3169445&sku=E400-W3619&CMP=ILC-RNV-DOD

It took me 30 seconds to find one, if you would just look before challenging someone .... ]]>Nov 23rd 2007 6:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/
I love the VIA CPUs. Granted you can cut their clock speeds in half and get a better guess of actually performance, they use so little power. I want to buy one just to buy one- a squid server or something.

But it's Walmart, so screw them.]]>Nov 21st 2007 7:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/Nov 21st 2007 7:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=5673669]]>Nov 21st 2007 7:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/Nov 21st 2007 8:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/Nov 21st 2007 7:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/Nov 21st 2007 7:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/Nov 21st 2007 7:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/
Speaking as a hobbyist, getting an idea of how different OSs run on one would just be gravy for the goose and would probably make for some good reading as well.
I'd probably set the bar for ram at 1GB personally, but 512MB of ram is enough to make it go.

This is probably a perfectly workable system if you set your expectations to low and work from there. Personally I'm interested in lightweight systems like this for basic stuff, as long as they run a browser well.]]>Nov 21st 2007 8:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/Nov 21st 2007 9:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/My home computer was purchased in September of 2002, and with the exception of adding a second hard drive, has not been upgraded. it is still used constantly by the entire family (5 of us)and can handle the latest OS without a hitch. Where do you think this PC will be in 5 years? I'd guess in a recycling heap. Good think it is 'green'. You get what you pay for. Some go for quantity, I go for quality. I always win in the end.]]>Nov 21st 2007 9:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/Nov 21st 2007 2:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/
1 x AMD SEMPRON 3200+ Socket AM2 64Bits BOX

1 x Linkworld Fonte Atx 450w

1 x SAMSUNG DVD/Rw 20X DLayer Black Bulk

1 x Kingston DDR2 1024MB 667Mhz

1 x Caixa ATX 8707 Branco

1 x Hitachi Disco Rigido 80gb Sata II

Total:199.7 €

...Linux on it and it flies by himself......
256MB Graphics Card Onboard.....
756MB RAM]]>Nov 21st 2007 9:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/Nov 21st 2007 9:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/Nov 21st 2007 10:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/31/everexs-199-green-pc-attention-ignorant-wal-mart-shoppers/

Yeah, but would a "green" computer be massively oversized? How much less material could they really have made it out of. It's not really supposed to be green, it's supposed to make you think that it's green (and not underpowered).]]>Nov 21st 2007 10:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/Nov 21st 2007 10:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/
I'm not saying its a bad computer or a bad idea, just that its become a fad to call everything "green" and a lot of things with that label aren't even close.]]>Nov 21st 2007 10:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/
Not a bad deal for the price, but I would download the latest Ubuntu/your favorite distro and use that instead of gOS.]]>Nov 21st 2007 10:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/Nov 21st 2007 12:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/Nov 21st 2007 10:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/21/everexs-200-gpc-back-in-stock-at-wal-mart/Nov 23rd 2007 11:53AM