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AMD's Personal Internet Communicator

Posted by michael on from the in-a-box dept.

mstefanus writes "SFGate.com has a story about AMD's 50x15 Personal Internet Communicator (PIC). It is basically a PC with an AMD Geode GX500 366MHz processor, 10GB hard drive and 128MB Memory; running some form of Windows CE. The device is intended as a cheap internet PC for the rest of the world population. AMDBoard has some pictures and specifications. The question is, will it run emm... FreeBSD?"

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  1. The only thing missing is... by spudthepotatofreak · · Score: 2, Funny

    Uhm... A nic card, please? Nobody really uses that dial-up thing anymore do they? :P

  2. No, by Scythr0x0rs · · Score: 5, Funny

    The question is, will it run emm... FreeBSD?
    It'll run FreeBSD. The question is,
    will it run windows?

    1. Re:No, by gmaestro · · Score: 2, Funny

      I't may eventually run FreeBSD, but I think the NetBSD folks have already have a beta out.

  3. Re:First Post? by LittleGuernica · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does it run solitaire?, because I know some people who would be satisfied with that, they don't need an AMD 64

  4. Re:Of course it runs... by grm_wnr · · Score: 5, Funny
    Of course it will run any BSD or Linux
    Everything does, sooner or later. It is INEVITABLE.
  5. That's not a PC... by fbg111 · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's Xbox Next, in disguise.

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  6. Just what Steve Ballmer was looking for! by ARRRLovin · · Score: 4, Funny

    In future news, Steve Ballmer eats crow after finding out the price of hardware has no effect on the piracy of MS software.

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  7. I can already see the headlines: by accelleron · · Score: 2, Funny

    400% increase in multi-cultural trolling

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