[sclug] Cheap Tesco PC's (with Ubuntu Pre-Installed)

[David Given]

Adam Trickett wrote:
[...]
> Like the Tesco model by not shipping Windows they can shave a fraction more of 
> the purchase price and keep the retail price just that bit lower. They know 
> full well Linux users will be happy and Windows user will put a boot-leg copy 
> of Windows on it. Either way the retailer doesn't have to pay Microsoft so 
> they appear a tad cheaper in the ultra-competitive retail sector.

Does anyone have any detailed information about exactly what these 
things are yet? For example, what kind of memory, whether it's PCI-e or 
some left over AGP boards, etc?

They do seem to offer a very nice bang:buck ration, but I still can't 
help feeling that there must be a catch somewhere...

-- 
David Given
dg at cowlark.com