We ’ve had our hand on these top-notch - dark-green Linux - and - Via powered babies for a little while , but now it ’s your play . Even though the genus Beta program is expected to scarper until September , Zonbu is confident that the computer hardware on 1.0 is locked . That ’s why today , the company started sell the small loge , but will cover the first three calendar month of software package support , technically a genus Beta run , for free .
If you retrieve , the little EPA - friendly atomic number 47 box comes without a keyboard , mouse and monitor , but surely any self - respecting geek has stack of those lying around . Zonbu ’s chief operating officer , Gregoire Gentil ( who also had a mitt in the Gentoo Linux chopine that Zonbu die hard ) says it ’s really a junior-grade personal computer , for kitchen , living rooms or wherever . you may have a look atBrian ’s full - throttle hired man - onfor details , but here are some things to keep in head :
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• It comes with many software titles pre - install for medicine and television playback and Office - doc direction . It ’s got an IM customer and Skype , though it wo n’t support video yet .
• The current edition does n’t have integrated Wi - Fi , though you’re able to use a dongle . Gentil enunciate that his company is exploring a Wi - Fi option for the hereafter .
• The pricing equipment failure is a little funny . It ’s $ 99 if you commit to two years of help . $ 13 per month gets you 25 GB of computer memory in the cloud , transparent to you from the desktop . ( The internal memory is just a CF card , so up to 8 GB . ) You pay for service up front , so a two - yr order with the 25 GB storage would cost , up front , $ 370.95 ( include the free three month deal ) . It ’s $ 199 if you only need one twelvemonth of service , and if you do n’t want any service at all , it ’s $ 249 .
• Service includes maintenance and tech musical accompaniment , plus newfangled programs every six months . The downside for geeks is that in this organisation Zonbu keep admin memory access to itself . You ’d need to go without avail to have solution - story control .
• As you may see from the exposure above , there ’s very little you ca n’t stop up into this thing . It has six USB port wine , and supports 800 camera and 1500 printers without any extra driver necessary . It also supports Mac - formatted , FAT32 and NTFS formatted drives , so like more drives than Windows or Apple ( unless you know some conjuring trick ) .
• And for you greenies , commend , this baby utilize just 10 watt while a stock microcomputer apply 200 watts , and it has EPEAT Gold condition for being made entirely out of earth - favorable material . Put that in Al Gore ’s pipe and smoke it .
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