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.