Checkout the OS-free PCs at walmart.com

The arch-discounter is offering nine (own-brand?) Microtel PCs for sale online, with prices – sans monitor, as well as OS – ranging from a bargain basement $399 for 1GHz Duron and Celeron models, all the way up to $868.74 for a 2GHz P4 replete with 256MB of SDRAM.

The idea of the Windows-free promo is to attract tech- savvy custom at a time when consumer PC sales are flatter than a flat pancake. The idea is that buyers can install their own operating system – maybe open source, maybe a license from an dead PC (but make sure you have all the documentation, folks). The Register