Low-cost desktop to spur PC adoption

Low-cost desktop to spur PC adoption

Interesting and a great effort from the government, Intel and their respective partners. www.xeptocomputing.com is trying to help out in this effort in the area of making the systems easier to manage as the provinces seem to lack the needed support infrastructure and we need to make the systems as idiot-proof as possible or else the computers will end up crashing and dead.

Over the years we have seen:

1) many unpatched PCs.

2) viruses, porn, and unauthorized applications installed on the PCs.

3) mechanical problems tending to be top reasons for failure, mostly hard disks and sometimes even power switch.

4) high-power usage at almost 200W, underutilization of CPU power and hard disk space.

5) expensive support costs to repair or address the above.

These problems still need to be addressed.

Nonetheless, all in all, this work of Intel and the government is a great effort to be supported. Intel's low-power Atom platform does a lot to lower the cost and power usage. We need more technology that is customized to developing nation environments.