Article source for : Zonbu - The 'green' PC
Jul 16, 2007 NT Times story titled "A PC That Uses Less Energy, but Charges a Monthly Fee":http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/16/technology/16cheap.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1184644840-Nk6c8KcWSXtdMQBrgU/kDg
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Grégoire Gentil and Alain Rossmann have devised a green twist. This summer the pair will begin selling a simplified Linux-based PC for $99 and a $12.95 monthly subscription charge. They say that the deal is better than it looks because the 15-watt PC can save up to $10 a month in electricity compared with a standard 200-watt PC.
Their company is "Zonbu":http://zonbu.com/home/index.htm, and the Zonbu computer will be sold through its Web site, zonbu.com. The founders said that the PC had received the highest certification possible from the Green Electronics Council, a nonprofit group that has created a product classification standard known as Epeat (for Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool).
The computer is the size of a cigar box and uses a low-power Intel-compatible microprocessor from VIA Technologies of Taiwan. It comes with four gigabytes of flash memory instead of a disk drive, a spinning mechanical part that uses much of a PC’s power. It also lacks a fan, another big energy user.
The Zonbu PC also uses a Gentoo version of the Linux operating system and will come with a range of software applications like the Mozilla Firefox browser, Skype voice-over-Internet service, OpenOffice software suite and many games. An additional 25 gigabytes of free online storage is available, with more offered for purchase.
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