[Am-info] The Wallmart PC

[Mitch Stone]

On Friday, March 1, 2002, at 12:46 PM, Erick Andrews wrote:

> I double checked Walmart's website.  It's "Microtel" alright.  Doing a
> Google search on Microtel really points to the Swedish company.
> It appears they have a presence in the U.S. in Louisiana (hey, that's
> in Walmart's backyard)...
>
> http://www.microtel-inc.com
>
> I'll guess it's an exclusive between them and Walmart, and Microtel
> would still bang out the hardware in the Far East, like everyone else,
> but I can't definitively prove it's them.

Interesting. I don't suppose they've got an OEM arrangement with Microsoft,
  which means they'll be more or less powerless to stop the sale of these 
naked PCs. A lot of people may start "recycling" their old OEM Windows 
disks.

   Mitch Stone
   mitch@accidentalexpert.com