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Chinese Company Produces $150 Linux PC

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the inexpensive-penguins dept.

srinravi writes to mention an Ars Technica article about another ambitious 'inexpensive computer' project. A Chinese manufacturer, YellowSheepRiver, is aiming to make available a $150 Linux PC built with inexpensive hardware components. From the article: "Urging potential customers to 'Say no to Wintel,' YellowSheepRiver is devoted to using its own Linux distribution and hardware designed and manufactured by Chinese companies. YellowSheepRiver hopes to close the "digital divide" by making computer technology available to the Chinese public at an affordable price. The Municator, which comes with 256MB of RAM, uses a unique 64-bit CPU with an instruction set based on a subset of the MIPS architecture. Designed by a Chinese company called BLX, the the cheap chip is clocked at 400 or 600MHZ and supposedly provides performance comparable to that of an Intel P3."

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  1. Video by torrap · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Here is a link to a good video from CeBIT 2006 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-920346214 8706105599 I am intrested in purchasing many of these but they will not return any contact

  2. Municator? by suv4x4 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Municator? Did they mean communicator but were too cheap to hire a translator?

    Apart from the cheap jokes, I wonder if that cheap PC will still be cheap if we tag on the cheap monitor, cheap keyboard, mouse, and of course a pair of cheap stereo speakers on it.

  3. Introducing: the $30 computer! by suv4x4 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I've two of them here, and full of them all over the world: Celeron 500Mhz (second hand, apparently), floppy 15 GB Disk, 128 RAM, 100MBps LAN, USB and so on, OEM XP Home.

    For total of $80, I can throw in a 15 inch CRT, keyboard mouse and speakers.

    So what, does that make me a "yet another ambitious cheap computer" project initiator or I just have more common sense that the rest of the world.

    Why is everybody afraid of second hand electronics?