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Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
- Subject: Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
- From: "sands-of-iowa" <sands@cableone.com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 03:19:49 -0500
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askjfk.com wrote in message
<2f83735a.0107300907.3f91d2c5@posting.google.com>...
>Why buy a $300 NEW computer when for that amount of money you could
>get a very good USED computer? If you added an office suite, a VGA
>monitor connector and a printer to the Sega Dreamcast (which already
>has a browser, modem and keyboard available), there's a cheap combo
>with great games!
>
>A decade from now $300 may be the standard price for a computer with
>relatively new technology, but the price today is more like $800-1000.
>
>Realistically, you would have to be able to produce a $300 machine for
>about $50-70 to count in all the other costs, like shipping and
>returns, so someone would have to think outside the box, so to speak,
>to get the job done.
>
>I do NOT think a monitor should be included with it. It adds weight
>and cost. You go to a thrift store and there are lots of monitors
>there. People also have TVs. The computer should have connections for
>at least types of monitors: SVGA, RCA and AV for TV/VCR. People can
>get whatever type of monitor they want.
>
>I also think the day of the all-in-one desktop unit (the Apple IIc,
>Atari 800, Commodore 64 etc.) should be revived if one wants to be
>economical. Have a serial printer port, joystick/mouse port, the
>aforementioned three monitor/TV ports, SCSI port. Built in would be a
>33k modem and 3.5 floppy drive for data storage. I wouldn't include
>CD-Rom. All the necessary stuff should be pre-installed to make life
>easy.
Why not build it with a buildt in monitor like these TV s with buildt in
VCRs kinda like a old Mac Plus