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Chinese Company Produces $150 Linux PC
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."
another ambitious 'inexpensive computer' project
You know, purely based on context, the meaning of the word "ambitious" starts shifting to a new meaning of "brave but clueless".
Why would I need a computer based on non-Intel chip for? Is there any software for it? The article says we'll do it to say no to WinTel. I need to buy a $150 worthless piece of hardware to say no to WinTel.
Are they targeting kindergardeners or something?
That's like selling cheap Internet that's however not Internet so you can't connect to any site or anything.
They claim their chip performs like P3, that kinda doesn't matter since what will I benchmark it with. Photoshop? 3DSMax? AutoCAD? Ah no, none of them will run on an exotic 64-bit chip under Linux.
They run on a WinTel...