Google to launch PCs
Posted in Technology by Sane on December 15th, 2005 Christmas is near and you can expect a cool gift from Santa (Google) this time. Google is planning to launch PCs for markets in India and China. According to the report by India’s leading newspaper, Hindustan Times, (Report not available online) Google will be launching the PCs with California based Wyse technology.
The PCs won’t have CPU; they will be bundled with Keyboard, Mouse and Monitor. The PC will connect to the hosted system on their server and the remote OS will manage storage and functioning of the PC. This will keep PC away from virus and also provide secure solution for storage of the user data.
The PC will run on software created by Google; hardware and other technicalities will be managed by Wyse technology.
The PCs will be available for Rs. 9,000 (INR) i.e. approximately $200
This opens door for much talked Google OS, GBrowser and Google’s office application.
Google to come up with PCs said,
December 15, 2005 @ 9:20 am
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Deep said,
December 15, 2005 @ 10:04 am
Opps, I am really sorry for the typo in the URL, will fix it soon with 301 redirect in sometime
This press release may put some light on the issue..it does not mention the name google anywhere but it does mention about the thin client which is in the picture
Deep
Dhanesh said,
December 15, 2005 @ 1:48 pm
Well I wouldnt be too sure abt this. If i have to store everything on Google’s sever, can i trust them with my private information such as paswords, credit card info, etc etc. especially when google has a name in scanning user data for promoting advertisements like they do in Gmail!
How safe can you keep your information? The safest place for your private info is always your own harddisk and not someone else’s.
Of course, thats what i think……..!
Abhinav said,
December 15, 2005 @ 3:16 pm
No CPU ? How’s that possible. Maybe it’s no HDD
Deep said,
December 15, 2005 @ 3:17 pm
Actually it will have small CPU chip which will just manage connection to the net I suppose because rest of the things including processing will be done remotely so it really can’t be called as CPU also…
Deep
Marketing Tools Review » Google To Start Selling PCs? said,
December 15, 2005 @ 9:05 pm
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Rob said,
December 16, 2005 @ 10:57 pm
How do you make the connection to Google? the release plainly says Wyse Technology is the company behind this.
Deep said,
December 16, 2005 @ 11:36 pm
Hi Rob,
I said that Wyse technology already released something like Thin client earlier and according to the article Google and Wyse Technology are behind Google’s thin client.
So it is highly possible that google might be using the same thing which Wyse announced a month back in the press release.
Regards,
Deep
Adam said,
December 17, 2005 @ 1:08 am
by CPU, the article must mean “case”. The keyboard or monitor will likely have a wireless or RJ45 slot on it, and boot something like pxes.
BigDeal said,
December 17, 2005 @ 5:25 am
I cannot believe Google come up with that! A PC with no hard drive that can do nothing but access a server for $200? My P4 system w/ 40G HDD cost $200 after rebate 2 years ago. For $400 you can get a low end PC with monitor right now.
Nipon said,
December 17, 2005 @ 9:39 pm
on searching about this i am not getting much about this. and y is nt the article available on hindustan times site :-/
Deep said,
December 17, 2005 @ 11:44 pm
Yup too strange that they didnt put it on their site but I managed to scan the paper
http://img525.imageshack.us/my.php?image=htgoogle5kb.gif
checkout above link for scanned copy.
Nipon said,
December 18, 2005 @ 1:30 am
:-o
Desigunda said,
December 18, 2005 @ 8:22 am
wont work - computer should be able to multitask and network with multiple things and this one can only do limited things and connect to google thats all.
Personal and Technology Blog » Google to launch PCs said,
December 19, 2005 @ 3:33 pm
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Amit Bhandarkar said,
December 19, 2005 @ 8:05 pm
Won’t work…how does Google expect to manage network latency with such poor bandwidth in India. I mean, what if you have to save GBs of data. It would take forever…
John T P said,
December 20, 2005 @ 4:50 pm
Sounds intresting…but isnt $200 a bit too much?
ये मेरी लाईफ है » Blog Archive » Google to launch PCs for Rs. 9000 said,
December 25, 2005 @ 10:52 pm
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diGit Blog said,
January 5, 2006 @ 2:11 am
No Google PC!!
Yep, that’s right & straight from the horse’s mouth. A rumour flew sometime back that Google will be unveiling its line of low cost PCs, actually thin clients connected to Google’s servers for their storage etc.
But Google h…
Roshan said,
January 5, 2006 @ 5:18 am
But I wonder if google is gonna ask for anything to pay them again to save out files on their servers if thats the case. Or possibly even money just to connect to their server.
Amit Gupta said,
January 6, 2006 @ 3:31 am
Roshan, you should read above, no Google PC is coming, that was just a ….. rumour!!
Deep said,
January 6, 2006 @ 9:42 am
Amit - they (Google) might announce it today at CES
Deep
Amit Gupta said,
January 6, 2006 @ 12:11 pm
Deep, I’ll reserve my doubts about that, since Google’s PR team has officially denied(check the register’s story on my post) any possibility of Google PCs(for now I think). But as I noted, you can never be sure with Google!!
Deep said,
January 6, 2006 @ 12:14 pm
Yup actually it was there in today’s Hindustan Times as well as in LA Times…google always denies of things and then throws bomb..but more than Google PC i am expecting Google Pack and Google paid video service today…
some info on it here and here
Deep
Amit Gupta said,
January 6, 2006 @ 12:34 pm
kewl!!
Intel to launch low cost PCs in India said,
January 11, 2006 @ 10:07 am
[…] It seems that year 2006 will be year of low cost computers, starting with Google..followed by Apple and now Intel also joining the race. […]