[Am-info] The Wallmart PC

[Geoffrey]

Mitch Stone wrote:
> 
> 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 don't believe this is the same company.  This site does not list PCs, 
but other non-desktop computer based equipment.

>>
>> 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.

I did happen to revisit the WalMart web site and found another Microtel 
computer that is preloaded with XP.  So Microtel appears to be going 
both ways, with and without OSs.  Again, bringing up the question how 
they can offer a computer without an OS, as you would expect that they 
must have some licensing agreement with M$ since they are offering 
machines with XP.

Here's the link, although it's sure to wrap...

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?product_id=1711303&cat=41937&type=1&dept=3944&path=0%3A3944%3A3951%3A41937

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>   Mitch Stone
>   mitch@accidentalexpert.com
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