[Halfmanhalfamazing]

Epson already sells PCs over in japan with linux on them, seems it's been a success if they're expanding.

http://www.turbolinux.com/cgi-bin/newsrelease/index.cgi?date2=20061129114327&mode=syosai

[Blue Highway]

Seems Dell is already doing this. Well not exactly, they are selling PC's with no OS installed.

Strange EPSON woud wait till 2007 to get into the PC market. 12 years too late to be taken as a new PC vendor competing with the big boys like HP and Dell.

[ShadowAce]

[69ConvertibleFirebird]

Epson jumps into the Linux PC market

That jump off the cliff is gonna hurt.

As one with all of my computers (laptop and desktop) dual boot, Ubuntu 7.04 Linux I can say that Linus is a hobby OS that is almost up to Windows 3.1 in capability and ease of use. The average Joe will never be able to deal with Linux.

Some examples-

Laptop display doesn't work with Linux.
Laptop wireless network card MUST have Windows drivers to work (Linux won't work without Windows... cool!).

Desktop can't get reasonable display resolution with Linux.

Can't get a decent CAD package for Linux. The list goes on and on...

[martin_fierro]

Mine, like many of you I’m sure goes to inkjet printers

I think of 9-pin dot matrix.

[snowsislander]

When you hear the name EPSON, what images come to your mind? Mine, like many of you I’m sure goes to inkjet printers, or even scanners.

Well, actually, I think of their new campus building, which I think is impressive.

But Seiko-Epson (or, as it used to be, Shinshu Seiki) has been around for a long time --- I just looked at their corporate page, and they are now over 83,000 employees world-wide.

They were producing handheld computers way back in 1982:

The HX-20

Epson has a web page with their proudest accomplishments of the last 50 years at http://www.epson.co.jp/e/company/milestones.htm.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Ironically the only device which I simply cannot, no matter how much I try to accomplish a workaround for it, download drivers, or anything else I’ve tried, get to work in a Linux environment is ... my printer.

:)

[Still Thinking]

I think they dabbled a little before, as have some names we associate more with general consumer electronics.