Google is planning to provide an own-brand Windows-less PC and sell the low-cost system through a partnership with retail giant Wal-Mart. The machine and/or the sales deal could be announced as early as this coming Friday. el Reg It would be interesting to see (if this happens) what sort of job they make of it. The article seems to suggest a media PC which IMO if it was limited (ie you couldn't install anything on it) in its capabilities would be the right sort of thing for someone like my mum.
to cut the price down you need to cut features, less silicone = less money to make = less money to buy. Although you COULD get a fancy system cheap if it was subsidised by the Google OS sending you adverts every time you used it. Companys would pay for that. could i stand it? Hell no i couldnt. Although if it were cheap enough id strip out the google OS and throw linux on it anyway! Nice idea, some questions that need answers tho before i trust old Google.
From what i've read it probably will be a linux. If you stop people being able to install on it you should also cut a lot of support issues which cost money to manage. They have fingers in quite a few free software pies so the new costs would be to brand the OS (if it is a linux). It obviously wouldn't be aimed at people that read this site. But if it can send and recieve email, browse the web securely and play movies and music on, then it is all that my mum would ever want.
Checks it's not April 1st.... Cool, Wonder whether it wiill use a linux distribution or prehaps they'll make there own OS which sorts of make sense. What ever happens it'll be a story to whatch [Edit] This what I get for eating lunch in before hitting post, people reply in between
