Linux destined for low-cost Intel Atom PCs?

Courtesy CNET Tech blog  Fri, 03/28/2008 - 12:00pm

Via-based Everex gPC2

Via-based Everex gPC2

(Credit: Wal-Mart)

Intel's low-cost Atom processors will be at the core of inexpensive PCs.

And inexpensive computers these days often come with Linux.

How do PC companies shave off the last hundred dollars or so to get to $299 or in some cases $199?

Easy. They ...


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