We here at our LUG may make some cheap computers and sell them.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813186151 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103211 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231122 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136098 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827106228 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811147024 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16823126032 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824116016
Total cost to make $456.92 and we plan on selling them for $529. We will be installing Ubuntu "Premium Edition". Basically with Flash 10 and the paid for codecs, and drivers. We will include Wine with World of Warcraft pre-installed and a few other platinum free Windows only programs. A few other F/OSS applications and possibly NERO if NERO cuts us a deal. We are also going to conduct a user review where we bring in random people off the street to test Ubuntu and get some feedback from regular people. Once we get to a happy medium we will be making commercials and try to cut a deal with Time Warner Cable to run a commercial. We might even start over new instead of using Newegg hardware but make machines that run only Ubuntu, possibly Atom processors. We hope to commercialize this enough to get a few things moving by August. Wish us luck :-P