[baseball_fan]

I would like to know who these guys are and did this force IBM's hand:

http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?product_id=3163026

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

AMD Athlon 4 processor

Now that is new to me..... must be their name for the AMD Semptron......likely made in China...or Taiwan and may be running Xandros Linux as opposed to Windows.....

[Cicero]

Cheap computers have always been available at Costco, Walmart, and other outlets. I doubt that this will be going head-to-head with IBM, which is a pretty fancy expensive machine. Their chief competitor is probably Dell, which also sells a lot to corporations. HP threatened IBM for a while but has pretty well wrecked its reputation. Same with Gateway.

I use all Dells. IMHO IBM just doesn't offer that much more for their higher prices.

[FreedomPoster]

I don't know, but I do expect that XP would run like crap on a system with 128M of RAM.