Originally published February 4 2006
Google plans an own-brand, Windows-less PC
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Google will sell the low-cost system through Wal-Mart stores. Analysts have claimed that Google is preparing a box that can move digital media content around the home, and that the PC will run Google's own operating system.
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.
Whether they've seen the text of Google co-founder Larry Page's Consumer Electronics Show keynote, which he'll make in Las Vegas on Friday, isn't clear, but it's suggested that the talk will cover the new box.
Crucially, the rig is said to be based on Google's own operating system - most likely Linux in Google clothing - rather than Windows.
Google's strengths are internet advertising - which is were its money comes from - and its search engine brand.
Whether the latter is strong enough to translate into a very different arena - computer hardware - is open to question.
It might, but releasing a Google OS is a very long way from displacing the Beast of Redmond from its PC throne, particularly in the desktop segment.
Apple hasn't done it and Linux hasn't done, and both have had many years to try.
Google wouldn't exactly be short of competition on the hardware side either.
The idea of a low-cost, consumer-oriented information processing system isn't unattractive, but it's been tried before and largely failed.
In part, that's because the offerings didn't have a backer of the wealth of Google behind it, but unless the vendor seriously limits what the thing can do, sooner or later the support calls start flooding in and the cost of helping non-technical buyers install new software and updates start mounting.
All this just to get a few more ads in front of a few more eyeballs, which is the motivation Google is perceived to have behind launching its own PC?
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