Dan´s Data has posted a review on PC Chips´ Book PC. Here a snip from the intro:
"Basic PC" is seen by a lot of people as a euphemism, like "characterful period residence" or "classic vehicle". It´s a marketing term intended to encourage people to buy things which they might not consider if the things were more honestly described. As, for instance, a "creaking, rotten flophouse" or "rust-bug habitat".Read more
The suspiciously cheap "basic PCs" peddled on late-night TV - by people who may or may not also have a nice line of fat-burning herbal teas and pyramid-power lottery number generators - may be perfectly good value. They may also be recycled, refitted Pentium-class machines which can chug along just fine if you just want to run Microsoft Works, play DOOM and surf the Web a bit, but which choke hideously on anything more demanding.
