Chinese Company Sells $146 Linux PC
A Chinese company called YellowSheepRiver has unveiled a tiny, $146 LINUX PC called the Municator, complete with a 400 mhz/800mhz Godson 2C processor, a 40-gigabyte hard drive, and 256 MB of RAM and running a Linux variant called the Thinix OS. (The whole system, with operating system, costs significantly less than a single copy of Microsoft Windows XP Pro.) The system doesn't include a monitor, but it does plug into both standard monitors and even TVs. Here comes the VIDEO!
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This product was awaiting release forw a while now. I'd be curious to find out how powerful this PC woudl be.
But its usage will outrun the $100 laptop that MIT is coming up with - the project.
great!!
It looks interesting, though I'd prefer to build a system for the same amount.
BRILLIANT!
This is just madness. What else can you really do with this PC, other than surf the web, and do web-related stuffs? You hardly could do proper programming, run simulations, nor perform graphics or video editing.... Price is good, but where are you standing with the technology going forward, while you are stagnant still?
What can you do with a book?
The backpack is dead - no more books. Now every student will have a computer, and excuses for not drilling and research have disappeared. Just go to school for the lunch and football. I expect an added cell phone/blueberry function and, perhaps, GPS, and all slaved to an implant making it useless to anyone but the owner.
And you think Window is suitable to do programming,run simulation,etc?
Please don't make me laugh..
The point is this PC is damn cheap,but i prefer to build it on my own.
@keith:
Are you being sarcastic?
'proper programming' what is mean by this, any computer can be used for programming!
There are plenty of people who don't want 'run simulations' or 'video editing'. There are a lot of people who's only use for a computer is to surf the web, write the odd letter and send email. For these people this computer is more than adequate.
keith: The people that will buy this machine are people that want to run linux (hence the name). I assure you, most people don't use linux for video editing, games, simulations, etc.
I wouldn't mind buying one of these things to use as a shell/web server. It's nice and compact; I could even dump it onto a shelf and just SSH in with my desktop. Couple that with the cheap price, and it's great.
Out of curiosity, why couldn't you do "proper" programming on this? 800MHz is more than enough to run linux smoothly (I used to run it on my 333MHz laptop).
Keith,
Sarcasm is a hard thing to communicate in writing and I'd like to think you've not realized this yet. But please do, otherwise you'll continue looking like an idiot.
From the picture it's looking like a glorified WebTV so that grandma and grampa can look at pictures of the kids and be baffled with email and websites. For them the $150 target price for a computer with big, simple icons that shows on there TV is perfect.
Maybe you're on to something though. Maybe grams wants to run Doilysim and model in realtime 3D space her latest crocheting project with accuracy down to the individual fiber. And gramps is probably going to feel slighted when Pixar turns him down for freelance work when he renders his demo reel of "That Curmudgeonly Bastard" on this box because the polygon count is too low and the character animation is jerky and simplistic.
When you dismiss the product by saying that you would prefer to build a system yourself, I think you are missing the purpose of the affordable computer. Computers like this are used by NGOs to bring tech and education to villages, local government and courts in developing nations.
Plain and simple, this would be a great cheap resource for students, authors, web designers, and people who aren't computer savvy and just want to surf the web and use email. This is linux's answer to the iMac and I think its great. While a painfully slow machine, surely this will lead to bigger, better, and cheaper products.
The $150 PC is a both a big deal and a non-issue. First of all people in the developing world are buying better systems than this for less (PIII systems for $50 to $200). So in that sense this computer is a non-issue. But it is a big deal because China is now developing its home-grown technology. The CPU is actually 3 (6-8 years behind) generations behind Intel & AMD; but China never even had a CPU 10 years ago...so they are advancing quickly. This is I feel as big of a deal as China, or Pakistan being advanced enough to have Nuclear Weapons, this shows developing countries have not only the muscle to compete(ie: cheap labor) but also the brains(ie: cheap brainpower) to compete. Cant wait to see Intel & M$ profits shrink in 10 years.
The spokesperson guy in the video is a complete dumbass! and has no clue what he is talking about
Is that a Pikachu on the screen???
" What else can you really do with this PC, other than surf the web, and do web-related stuffs? You hardly could do proper programming, run simulations, nor perform graphics or video editing.... Price is good, but where are you standing with the technology going forward, while you are stagnant still?"
Car PC for one, doofball.
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