Full meal deal includes a monitorCNET is reporting that VIA will be demonstrating a prototype of a 250$ PC in Computex next month and will be licensing out the reference design to manufacturers.?The big news is that the PC will include a monitor, not just the tower.?There are some?interesting design decisions such as the following -
To cut support costs for the Terra PC, Via puts the operating system and the applications on a read-only flash memory chip, rather than on the hard drive. Ideally, this will cut down on viruses and other problems, although it makes updates a little more difficult. The hard drive primarily exists to store additional programs, music and photographs.
There was talk of some people out at MIT developing a sub 100$ laptop and while enthusiasts may not be particularly thrilled about a 1 Ghz PC, the fact that they are able to hit such a price point is pretty impressive.
