HP dx2250: Hewlett Packard now selling Red Hat powered PC in Australia

Hewlett Packard now selling Red Hat powered PC in Australia

World’s largest personal computer maker Hewlett Packard has announced that they would soon launch a Red Hat Linux powered machine in the Australian market.

This PC would be priced starting at AU$ 600 and it would be powered with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Desktop.

The model would be HP dx2250 desktop computer and it would feature an AMD microprocessor.

Customers would be able to choose from a a range of AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual-core, Athlon 64 and Sempron processors.

Max McLaren, General Manager at Red Hat in Australia and New Zealand spoke on this upcoming product: “With the cost of proprietary systems continuing to rise, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Desktop minimizes acquisition and ongoing deployment costs, leaving more money and resources for other high-value projects and tasks.”

The OS would come preloaded with OpenOffice and Firefox open source applications.