AMD's "Personal Internet Communicator"

[CTho9305]

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From the SF Gate article:

Initially, the PC will be sold in India, Russia, China, Mexico and Brazil.

 

[BW86]

cool

 

[n0cmonkey]

I want one.

 

[iamtrout]

IE? Now many more people can be the recipients of spam and adware! Yay!

 

[BW86]

spywareblaster
spybot
and ad-aware are your friends

 

[EULA]

I think im going to make the switch to firefox myself...

 

[FreshFish]

Firefox>>IE IMO

 

[Lyfer]

Bring it down to sub $100 and the people will rejoice.

 

[Zebo]

Predict cheap linux box

 

[Zebo]

It's pretty attractive and a very good deal assuming the geode @333 is about as powerful as a Pentium2 at that speed. I used internet fine there. Check out the chip... 1W ...I doubt you'd even hear this mahine.

AMD Personal Internet Communicator (PIC)
Codename: Emma
Processor: AMD Geode GX500 366MHz @ 1W
Memory: SDRAM DDR 128MB
Hard Disk: 10GB
I/O: 4xUSB, 56KB Modem, Audio
System: MS Windows CE for Hand-held computers
Softwares: IE, Messenger, Spreadsheet, & more
Manufacturer: Solectron

Price: 185$ withoutt monitor - 249$ with monitor

 

[yhelothar]

That's a bit expensive for such a weak system. I bet you could build a full fledged athlon system for $185, especially with those cheap $49 fry's cpu/fully integrated mobo deals.

 

[CTho9305]

In the target markets, the cost of electricity becomes a factor as well as just the up-front cost. Also, your $185 off-the-shelf system is going to be big, noisy, and probably a lot more fragile.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Between the size and the electricity benefits, this could rock. If there was a second ethernet interface in there, it'd be almost perfect.

 

[Sunbird]

Thats things a steal............

Really, I mean it, that thing is so small you could easily steal several of them in one go (who wants to lug big beige boxes around?, and you have to hurry too, since you don't want to be caught).

Must be because I live in a crime ridden society when that is the first thing I notice.........

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Sunbird
Thats things a steal............

Really, I mean it, that thing is so small you could easily steal several of them in one go (who wants to lug big beige boxes around?, and you have to hurry too, since you don't want to be caught).

Must be because I live in a crime ridden society when that is the first thing I notice.........

That's why you steal powerbooks, genius.