First impressions of a $200 lindows box: Good

[Joel Hammer]

More nice surprises with this thing.

I took the case apart to see what it looks like. I wasn't too hopeful when
I noticed that two of the case screws had been left off at the factory.
However, my fears were unwarranted.

Very nice case, well finished, no sharp edges.

Very nice uncluttered interior.  Three free PCI slots. All the audio,
networking, and video is built into the main board. That the kind of thing
that most linux distros have a hard time with, in my limited experience,
at least with the audio.

This is a "full sized" ATX minitower, and has lots of room for
expansion. It has only one HD (20 gig Western Digital) and a 52x
CDROM. There are two DIMM slots, and joy of joy, only one was in use
(it has a 125 meg memory chip in it.) So, I was able to put in another
30 megs of memory from my old computer and I put in a hard drive I had
lying around (80 gigs). I will put in my old floppy drive when I get
more enthusiasm.

Anyway, my concern that the box would be some limited awful thing,
not allowing any expansion, like a compaq computer, turned out to be
entirely unfounded.

I will definitely buy another one of these for downstairs.

Joel