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[News] U.S. Senate's High Tech Task Force Visit ODW Assembly ANN.lu Posted on 26-Aug-2004 12:00 GMT by Balisto (Edited on 2004-08-26 14:23:34 GMT by Christophe Decanini) 27 comments View flat View list The Senate Republican HTTF's (High Tech Task Force) Jesse Wadhams (Technology Policy Counsel to the Chairman) visited the assembly production of the Open Desktop Workstation 24 Aug 2004. See the Press Release http://www.genesi.lu/press.php?date=20040825 Genesi Photos: http://www.pegasosppc.com/gallery.php?id=111 HTTF Weebsite: http://republican.senate.gov/httf/new.htm List of all comments to this article Sorted by date, most recent at bottom Comment 1 takemehomegrandma Registered user 26-Aug-2004 10:45 GMT Comment 2 Emeric SH 26-Aug-2004 11:27 GMT Comment 3 Emeric SH 26-Aug-2004 11:28 GMT Comment 4 priest 26-Aug-2004 12:01 GMT Comment 5 priest 26-Aug-2004 12:02 GMT Comment 6 Anonymous 26-Aug-2004 12:16 GMT Comment 7 Emeric SH 26-Aug-2004 12:34 GMT Comment 8 Christophe Decanini Registered user 26-Aug-2004 14:38 GMT Comment 9 Rafo 26-Aug-2004 16:34 GMT Comment 10 Amon_Re Registered user 26-Aug-2004 18:27 GMT Comment 11 Darth_X Registered user 26-Aug-2004 18:52 GMT Comment 12 Wayne Dresing PhD 26-Aug-2004 22:32 GMT Comment 13 Anonymous 26-Aug-2004 22:49 GMT Comment 14 JoannaK 27-Aug-2004 01:09 GMT Comment 15 Anonymous 27-Aug-2004 04:29 GMT Comment 16 Joe "Floid" Kanowitz 27-Aug-2004 06:32 GMT Comment 17 corpse 27-Aug-2004 15:13 GMT Comment 18 Anonymous 27-Aug-2004 19:31 GMT Comment 19 Anonymous 27-Aug-2004 19:40 GMT Comment 20 Anonymous 27-Aug-2004 19:46 GMT U.S. Senate's High Tech Task Force Visit ODW Assembly : Comment 21 of 27 ANN.lu Posted by corpse on 27-Aug-2004 21:21 GMT In reply to Comment 18 (Anonymous): " Regarding the cost/price of the hardware, I believe that is subject to change downwards quite soon." The price would have to drop exponetionally for Genesi to shift a decent amount of units. Frankly put, the prices of this stuff is too high for the negligible benefits. From the press release and ODW pages, this thing is basically summed up as a PPC linux box (A Standardized PowerPC Embedded Software Development System barf!). What exactly sets it apart from the also Linux capable (and better supported) PPC boxen from Apple (aka Mac's) isn't clear other than these look like they're constructed in a factory cafeteria rather than a production facilitity. Apparently they're also yet to come up with any reason why PPC is so great. The Chinese produce a MIPS based desktop-capable linux machine in a tiny orange cube and what do America/Europe have to offer? Ah argh I know let's stick an underpowered, expensive design in a flashy case and give it a bunch of stupid tag names. Jump... #22 Joe "Floid" Kanowitz #23 Anonymous Top Previous comment Next comment bottom List of all comments to this article (continued) Comment 22 Joe "Floid" Kanowitz 28-Aug-2004 05:20 GMT Comment 23 Anonymous 28-Aug-2004 06:35 GMT Comment 24 Anonymous 28-Aug-2004 06:50 GMT Comment 25 Joe "Floid" Kanowitz 28-Aug-2004 08:15 GMT Comment 26 Andreas_Wolf 28-Aug-2004 12:11 GMT Comment 27 mm 11-Oct-2004 19:07 GMT

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