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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?"

3 of 305 comments (clear)

  1. This looks b-i-g... by dtjohnson · · Score: 0, Redundant

    the box might be small but the idea looks big. Next will come the console-like games and then...

  2. Personal Internet Server by complexmath · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I've been looking for a small, cheap, low heat/power server for quite a while now. If AMD stuck a NIC in this thing and Apache ran on it I'd buy one in a second. And if someone discovered a way to get BSD or Linux to run on it I'd be even happier.

  3. 56k modem? by Savves · · Score: 0, Redundant

    being small and self contained is cool and all, but who else thinks it'd do better with an ethernet port and/or a built-in wifi card? or maybe a pcmcia slot? i mean, come on, 56k dialup is almost obsolete! broadband is already too cheap it'd be stupid to use dialup... unless of course you're living in the middle of nowhere with nothing but a phoneline to connect you to the outside world...