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I bought a WOW PC for my 83 year old father-in-law several years back and he loved it. It is linux based and includes support.
Hmm...
A Celeron quad core? Two GB of RAM?! 32GB hard drive? a 1.0MP camera?!
FOR $1300?! US dollars?
WOW! is right, as in "Wow, what a racket".
This is a joke, right? This is a joke product. These hardware specs were laughable in 2010. This system would've struggled to run XP SP3. Did they pull these computers from the dead husk of Circuit City? Where did they even find a 1.0MP camera module at?
If that's not a joke it's highway robbery. For that kind of money it better stop bullets, fold my laundry, and make coffee before I ask for it.
This computer isn't worth $130. In fact it's not worth $13. They should be paying people to take this hardware from them, for scrap.
i couldn't find the specs on the web. but yes that is terrible
It's in the FAQs.
8 USB ports and gigabit Ethernet are wild given the rest of the specs, though. Given the rest of the specs I'd assume 2 usb and 10/100 lan. Whatever their source is for 30 year old hardware must be out of NICs.
Uuuuuugh and the OS isn't even fully open.
I was thinking "gee, a nice big senior-friendly OS would be awesome for folks", but yeah this is $1300 to buy Wannabe Windows.
If you are comparing on hardware you are missing the point. It comes with support and a free number they can call if something goes wrong. I don't live in the same country as FIL so its was 100% worth it to make him happy with his computer.
It comes with 30 days of support, after that they charge rent.
I'm not "comparing on hardware", because there is no comparison. This hardware is trash. It's a paperweight.
The WiFI router your ISP gives you with your service probably has more compute power. Which is what this company should be doing, giving this computer away for free with the support subscription.
They must have changed from when I bought it 7 years ago.