Xtra pc is a scam company have fun www.xtra-pc.com https://www.youtube.com/c/Xtra-pc
https://youtu.be/iFCQytvgy5Q
Actually, it is not. Linus from Linus Tech Tips reviewed one of their products. Maybe you should have looked before!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S46Fby3qOGg&ab_channel=LinusTechTips
@dillpickle778#170363 well that is true but the company is overcharging a sandisk that cost $80-35 while the usb alone was $8
Screenshot by Lightshot here is their IP
@dillpickle778#170363 their IP is from India
Not really a scam but a ripoff. You can install a live bootable copy of Linux on a flash drive for free. And a flash drive is really inexpensive.
However, they will sign up your email for affiliated advertisements and spam. https://youtu.be/0ZWZ4R48S6w
I wouldn’t even say it’s that overpriced. By the same standards, you could say a restaurant charging you $4 for a glass of Coca Cola is a rip off just because for that price you could probably buy two full bottles in a supermarket. Businesses have some overhead that they have to charge the customer for, corporate taxes, salaries of the employees, marketing, some profit for the owner… I’d say the price is still kinda fine. Nobody needs to buy it if he/she doesn’t want it.
I just find two things bad: the email spam but legally speaking there has to be an 'Unsubscribe' button and to get the emails in the first place, double opt-in. Another bad thing is the claim that you could use the PC for "gaming" which is obviously exaggerated.
I don't like the YouTube video for the following reasons: it's misleading as to what the purchase process was. I'm pretty sure there's like a checkmark "Opt-in for other great deals" or something like that. Another thing I didn't like is that he made it sound like there was bloatware on it which was false. He corrected himself though but he didn't cut that out. Also, the bug when starting Ubuntu had nothing to do with Xtra PC, that was just a bug in Ubuntu. So blaming Xtra PC would be unfair.
So to conclude, it's **not** a scam. It's a somewhat useless product that you can replicate for much cheaper if you know how to do it.
@NeeP#170582
>
I wouldn’t even say it’s that overpriced
I tend to disagree with this. They are selling a operating system that is already free (with some minor changes such as branding). As for the flash drive it comes on, even a 64 gb flash drive from a reputable brand such as SanDisk, Samsung, PNY, etc. is less than $15. The most expensive Xtra PC stick is $80, on a 64 GB flash drive. So they are really profiting about $65 off something off software that is actually free.
As for the spam emails, I went on their website’s checkout page. There isn’t an option to opt out.
I do agree with you about the fact that there isn’t actually bloat ware, and the bug was part of Ubuntu and not Xtra-PC.
Also, Jay posted a video about their ads, which you have probably seen on YouTube advertisements. The advertisements also target organizations like churches, schools, etc. and claim they can save money on getting new computers by receiving donations of old computers and using Xtra-PC to make it run like new. They also say something like they can get an unlimited number of computers with Xtra-PC, which I have no clue what the hell that means.
https://youtu.be/a8ILBrXjp1U
I wouldnt say its a scam, as they are in fact giving you a working product. I feel like it was more meant for older folks who don’t have the technical knowhow to setup an ubuntu live flash drive. They are charging a fee for it of course, and about the email spam, I have no idea
@dillpickle778#170615 Although the adverts are a bit misleading.
@atomicdragon136#170593 I agree, especially the 64 GB version is definitely overpriced as the price bump they’re charging isn’t linear with the hardware costs for the flash drive itself.
And those spam emails, it seems they're breaking the law cuz they must have an option to give consent before sending out advertising emails. That's really scummy of them and illegal.
EDIT: I watched the other video with the ads (https://youtu.be/a8ILBrXjp1U) :
>@atomicdragon136#170593 Also, Jay posted a video about their ads, which you have probably seen on YouTube advertisements. The advertisements also target organizations like churches, schools, etc. and claim they can save money on getting new computers by receiving donations of old computers and using Xtra-PC to make it run like new.
I think this is a good idea. Organizations run differently than normal people. They rather pay for something to be taken care of instead of fixing the idk 30-40 PCs they have. So having old PCs being donated to them and instead of wiping everything and installing everything from scratch which would be a lot of work, individually for each PC, using a live OS from a bootable USB drive is actually a smart idea. The alternative would be that the organizations would have to hire expensive IT staff that is coming to them and doing the work for them. It's easier and more cost effective to run from a bootable USB flash drive. And if you look at enterprise products, they always cost heavily more than consumer products. A NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPU for 10,000 USD isn't so much better than a top of the line GeForce card for 2,000 USD. And running a light-weight Linux distro on a used PC is probably enough for churches and other organizations which will do mostly light-weight workloads anyway such emails, text editing and maybe web browsing.
Their advertising is bad though: they make it sound like this is a PC itself which is wrong. "A PC for 25 Dollars".
Yeah, I agree with Neep. The advertising is not great, and yes, it’s overpriced. But then again, what is a non-tech savvy organization going to do? It isnt worth the cost to hire someone to install it on 100’s of pc’s. When they say that these flash drives are the pc’s, that’s misleading, but most people with a brain can figure out that a flash drive isnt the whole computer. I see how some people could see this as a scam, but really all the reason for that is the misleading adverts. I use a live os on a usb stick on an old laptop, and I see how a large organization wouldn’t want to mess with that, because I’d assume they don’t have 30 computers with the same specs, which would break the whole “just make one and clone it” because of driver compatibility issues. Also, why the heck are the ads focused on and around churches and christian schools? Do they assume that christians dont know how to use a PC? XD