You know times are changing when you can buy a new computer for less than you would spend filling the gas tank in your SUV! Forbes has an interesting article on their website about the rapidly declining price of entry-level computers.
Andy Greenberg, the article's author, asks an excellent question: "What do we get from all the bells and whistles piled into today's PCs? Not enough to justify the $1,000 price tag the industry hopes we'll go for." I have asked myself that question many times recently. While all of the features of a typical, new $1,000 desktop are great, the features are typically far more than I need. I have come to the conclusion that I could do 99.x% of my computing on a Palm TX with less cost and much less weight and bulk. As Greenberg notes in the Forbes article, most people need basic office applications, e-mail and Internet access. Period.
NorhTec offers a line of computers with single-unit prices starting at $120. Discounted rates are available for bulk purchases. NorhTec's inexpensive MicroClient does not include a monitor and is designed to boot off flash memory or a USB memory device. Still, it is hard to imagine going wrong for that price.
[via Gizmodo]
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