[FoRK] Really cheap computers

[Tom Higgins]

So its a devices to push ads onto the screens of folks who want the
intertubes but not have to deal with like all that messy like comupter stuff
like ewwww.

I thouhgt  this is what apple is supposed to be for..

Ok so this is a dumb terminal hooked to thier servers to feed you the raft
of google apps....yeah see then there is the whole no movies no cds
thing..hmm.

So dumb terminal with google apps back end and ads...set top boxes are back?
Wohoo welcome to 1997. Can we get a version with MS Bob on it?

yeesh.

Freaking heck, and emachine (about 200-300 from frys on a good week) with
something like Gos on em (there are some set up as such from Walmart if I am
not mistaken) and your don. Factor in the monehly costs of service from
numbnuts...er nimbus...and you have hit the TCO in short order.

Practicing what I preach I am probably goign to set up a box for my mom (67
years old and has hardly ever touched a modern computer) with Gos on it. I
was toying with doing a stripped down ubuntu box with lots of prisms on the
desktop, but this might be more fun.

Still gotta check the legals and tos on Gos.

Now to find the time.

-tom(- --- --)higgins