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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: Darren Salt <news@youmustbejoking.demon.cu.invalid>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 03:13:46 +0100
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I demand that Bill Hoggett may or may not have written...
> On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 22:09:21 +0200, "T.J.T van Kooten"
> <thomas@-nospam-worldonline.nl> wrote:
[snip]
>> CPU? (P.S Intel and AMD are out, far too expensive and powerhungry for
>> this type of thing, you should be looking at the $20-35 level)
> Very cheap and weak Intel or AMD CPU's then. The alternative is to go with
> the stuff used in PDA's, but do you want to have a desktop or a PDA.
Oh, I don't know... I'm using a nice ARM-based desktop box here...
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