13 Mar
2000
13 Mar
'00
4:38 a.m.
Is this device still available? The page refers to
$$99 from circuit city.
(If so I will be taking one home after my US visit next week!!)
Kevin
According to Slashdot reports they're currently out of stock just about
everywhere. The page on adding a disk mentions it's got a 180MHz
processor, yet I believe the companies page mentions 200MHz.
It's not clear if you can decline to order the
monthly ISP-like
Internet dial-up service, at least $21.95/month for the first month,
if you buy via their web site. If you can get one for $100
from Circuit City without sign-up for the service, away you
go. But it may be that the $100 price is only possible if you
pick up a minimum service contract.
- John
It looks like if you buy direct you're sucked into a service agreement, of
at least a month. However, according to what was said on Slashdot if you
get it from Circuit City you don't have to deal with that, and can get it
for $99. However, people were mentioning having to put down a $20
downpayment because it wasn't in stock, and I gather the $99 is a time
limited deal and it will go up to either $199 or $299.
The chip in that thing is a Pentium180?
Tell me more about this, is the LCD part of it??
Allison
Well, it's not a Pentium 180, it's a WinChip 180 (I've no idea how that
compares). The LCD is a 800x600 passive colour display apparently. It
also has 32MB RAM, that looks like the same RAM used in the iMac.
The company making them is Netpliance http://www.netpliance.com/ and I
think I saw an add for them on the Discovery Channel last night, a couple
hours before I saw the site on hacking a disk into them
http://www.linux-hacker.net/iopener/
Of course the ulitmate would be to use one as both a PDP-11 emulator and
the System console for my PDP-11/44 :^)
I hate both clone chips and Circuit City, but I'm *really* tempted to run
over to Circuit City before work today!
Zane
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