Re:$149 Chromebooks
by melling on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @02:28PM
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I agree. Microsoft should ignore this because there's no money in it. Still, it's nice that a couple billion new people will be able to afford their first computer.
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Yes, but it's a tethered computer with a dependency on a mainframe.
Do these poor people that this device is targeting also have sufficient money to pay for constant network access? The total cost of ownership for one of these suddenly becomes very high when you factor that in.