What's with this race to the bottom when it comes to hardware anyway? Are we all really that poor that we have to pinch pennies on something that most of us only buy every 3-4 years anyway? I've always been a firm believer in the fact that you get what you pay for, especially when it comes to tech. I wouldn't buy one of these things for half the price. There's an old Dennis Miller joke (from back when he was funny) about cheap stuff. "Don't you love 2-for-1 sales at cheap discount stores? You know folks, 2 of s**t... is s**t. If they really want to screw you, they'll give you 3."
you get what you pay for... These cheap PCs scare me. Especially when I see Emachines selling a vista machine for $450.00 or less at costco. Try to actually run Vista on the hardware you get with that price.
At one point the control got confused and set the speed so that it flashed them each at under one second. Then it went into a whole other slideshow about the African desert?
[quote]You cant install any other programs to the OS.[/quote]I don't think that's what they were designed for. Seems more like something to be used as a terminal/"thin client" over gigabit ethernet. This is what you'd be running your Google Office on (or so Google hopes!), or virtualized apps, etc. Perfect for schools and offices because they'd have full control over what you can do. No more sneaking porn, or installing crap on your company's hardware.
"Don't expect to play 'Grand Theft Auto III'"...Uh, how out of touch is this guy? Hint: You don't sound culturally savvy when you're pulling up five year old game titles.
It still blows my mind that QNX isn't being used as the ONLY OS for cheapass computers and PDAs.It's POSIX compliant, written entirely in assembler, and is unbelievable resource-light. Puts WinCE and PalmOS to shame.When I was in college, they had a "1.44mb floppy disk challenge"... A single floppy that contained a gui (including filesystem explorer), 14KB graphical web browser (blazingly fast online, but didn't support flash at the time. Mind you, that was 1998), and a host of other things. I fell off my chair the first time I had seen it.
cmainMay 20, 2007
But then I'd have to leave my house. NOES!!!
inkswampMay 20, 2007
What's with this race to the bottom when it comes to hardware anyway? Are we all really that poor that we have to pinch pennies on something that most of us only buy every 3-4 years anyway? I've always been a firm believer in the fact that you get what you pay for, especially when it comes to tech. I wouldn't buy one of these things for half the price. There's an old Dennis Miller joke (from back when he was funny) about cheap stuff. "Don't you love 2-for-1 sales at cheap discount stores? You know folks, 2 of s**t... is s**t. If they really want to screw you, they'll give you 3."
tawniMay 20, 2007
you get what you pay for... These cheap PCs scare me. Especially when I see Emachines selling a vista machine for $450.00 or less at costco. Try to actually run Vista on the hardware you get with that price.
hhp2kMay 21, 2007
At one point the control got confused and set the speed so that it flashed them each at under one second. Then it went into a whole other slideshow about the African desert?
obkenobiMay 21, 2007
[quote]You cant install any other programs to the OS.[/quote]I don't think that's what they were designed for. Seems more like something to be used as a terminal/"thin client" over gigabit ethernet. This is what you'd be running your Google Office on (or so Google hopes!), or virtualized apps, etc. Perfect for schools and offices because they'd have full control over what you can do. No more sneaking porn, or installing crap on your company's hardware.
rosstafariMay 21, 2007
"Don't expect to play 'Grand Theft Auto III'"...Uh, how out of touch is this guy? Hint: You don't sound culturally savvy when you're pulling up five year old game titles.
quantumcoreMay 21, 2007
I'm looking at that as well, the pricing at <a class="user" href="http://norhtec.com/products/mcjr/index.html">http://norhtec.com/products/mcjr/index.html</a> with no extras shows at $120, and that's without a flash card or shipping. So don't actually think you can get one of these for $80...
cryoknightMay 21, 2007
It still blows my mind that QNX isn't being used as the ONLY OS for cheapass computers and PDAs.It's POSIX compliant, written entirely in assembler, and is unbelievable resource-light. Puts WinCE and PalmOS to shame.When I was in college, they had a "1.44mb floppy disk challenge"... A single floppy that contained a gui (including filesystem explorer), 14KB graphical web browser (blazingly fast online, but didn't support flash at the time. Mind you, that was 1998), and a host of other things. I fell off my chair the first time I had seen it.
Closed AccountMay 21, 2007
stupid troll is stupid :(