Tuesday December 04, 2007
Tuesday December 04, 2007
I blogged in my recent entry about the new $A 500 Asus Ess PC. How can a PC cost less than $A 500? Easy, IT DOES NOT RUN WINDOWS and instead runs on Linux. Why is Bill Gates the richest man in the World? It is simple really, every Windows machine that is sold you pay for the OS to Microsoft. What this Asus Ess PC does is that it takes Microsoft out of the loop.
This is something Sun could so eaily do. I think Sun should manufacture a laptop running Solaris 10 and bundle it with StarOffice. I also like the idea of using a flash drive to reduce weight and cost at the entry level or for an ultra-light laptop. Sun could also manufacture high-end machines with all the bells and whistles and easily beat the price of the Window machines. Once you take Micosoft out of the equation the cost comes down.
The Asus Ess PC.. ultra-light and ultra-portable that costs less than $A500 and DOES NOT RUN WINDOWS.
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I think it's more a case of
once you cut out decent RAM, hard disk storage, screen size, a usable keyboard and any kind of optical drive the price comes down".
It's a cute machine but not enough on its own.
Posted by Dick Davies on December 04, 2007 at 10:19 PM EST #
Bill Gates isn't richest. Carlos Slim is.
Posted by zdz on December 05, 2007 at 02:32 AM EST #
Sun couldn't make a keyboard for $500 ;)
Posted by dave on December 05, 2007 at 10:52 PM EST #