Anyone spotted this ? Asda to start selling £279 PCs

BoltonMinx

Hi ho folks,

Got this article in my newsletter which looked very interesting:

Wal-Mart-owned UK supermarket chain Asda is set to start selling sub-£300 PCs in its stores from next week.

The eSys PCs come with 256MB of memory, an Intel Celeron 2.4GHz processor and a 40GB hard disk, and will be sold in Asda's 271 stores for £279 from 25 August.

The Asda PC is also bundled with Microsoft's Windows XP operating system, Microsoft Works and a free three-month trial of antivirus software from Bullguard. The PC also comes with a 12-month on-site warranty from IBM Global Services

More can be found here. Has anyone spotted it ?

xueta

Yep, they're in the stores now. Fairly basic machine. Monitors are sold separately at £59.

Browntoa

looking at the spec it's the bare minimum for a PC, it will be "On Board" (motherboard) based graphics + sound which will steal chunks of the 256mb of Ram so it will be no use for games or multimedia

Ok for basic word processing or the internet though

FruGal_2

I understood Wal-Mart to be selling Linux loaded systems in their US stores.

Browntoa

yes, they did but the blurb for the UK ones does state Windows XP