Google PC: Misunderstanding, Disingenuous, or Strange Turn of Events

There’s a new PC at Wal-Mart, a $200 pretty decent Linux computer from Everex that you can pick up today. The PC is called the gPC, running a gOS Linux-based operating system, and a lot of people are calling it the “Google PC”.
But is it?
Plenty of websites are calling it a Google PC without a single sentence to the fact that Google did not built the PC, or the software, and is not selling it in any way. For your consideration, I present John Dvorak, the bastion of credible, honest journalism, who has these sentences in his article and his podcast:
$200 “Google PC” is launched today at Wal-mart
Google is also involved in a cheap $199 computer…
I guess it’s a prelude to a kind of Google operating system.

No mention of it not being a PC from Google.
Andy Beal titles his article Buy a Google Computer for $199! and says:
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Original post by Nathan Weinberg