Walmart-Xandors

Jeff Smith jsmith at alum.mit.edu
Tue Apr 19 04:27:01 EDT 2005


--- Bill McGonigle <bill at bfccomputing.com> wrote:
> 
> On Apr 18, 2005, at 17:45, Randy Edwards wrote:
> 
> > IMHO, the worst aspect of them is the fact
> > that they're from Wal-Mart (insert disclaimer about
> union-busting,
> > hyper-exploitation of workers, etc., here).
> 
<snip>

> I'm somewhat surprised they're selling non-windows
> machines.  At their 
> volumes they ought to be able to get XPHome for $14.  I
> know they're 
> big into cutting out as much cost as possible, but I
> wonder if there 
> isn't more here to this story.



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