Walmart-Xandors

Bruce Dawson jbd at codemeta.com
Mon Apr 18 17:33:00 EDT 2005


On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 17:06 -0400, Karl Hergenrother wrote:
> Has anyone have any experience with, or comment about the Microtel 
> Xandros Linux computers offered by Walmart.  These computers aren't very 
> powerful by today's standards, but for a straight vanilla desktop with 
> Linux and OpenOffice perloaded, I haven't seen a better bargain.  I need 
> to replace my 200 MHz Pentium II.
> 
> http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?product_id=3380786

We got 2 Microtel's from Walmart last year. The ones on that web page
appear to be this year's model. 

They're both still running. We had a problem with the memory on one
after about 6 months, but I just replaced the DIMM, and its running
fine. Its has fairly constant office-type use.

The other one appears to have some graphics problems (every once in a
while, the screen will become all washed out), but its in a "tougher"
environment - it frequently reaches 90 degrees (F) in the "office", and
might have an occasional insect (ant, roach, spider, ...) run through it
but is otherwise reliable.

--Bruce
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