Want to know what a headless vanilla white box PC ought to cost? It's hard to imagine a better place to check than Wal-Mart.
At the Wal-Mart Web site <www.walmart.com> you'll find a generic 1 GHz Intel white box (the Microtel SYSMAR116) with the usual state-of-the-moment features and figures: 128MB RAM,40GB drive, keyboard, mouse, modem, amplified speakers, floppy, etc. And in bold upper case letters, this welcome disclaimer:
MONITOR - NOT INCLUDED
OPERATING SYSTEM - NOT INCLUDED
Commodities don't get much more commodified than that.
The price: $399.
The site: <http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?product_id=1731327>
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