Your new computer: a few inches long, $25

[NotAllThere]

I'd like to have a VM on a stick. One of my clients supplied with a laptop. I VMd it, and could then run it from my desktop, my own laptop.

It'd be quite cool if the clients would just give me a USB stick with my VM on it. No need to supply me with hardward.

[Moose423956]

This is epic, is a very good idea for a cheap computer.

PC -> Lap top -> Netbook -> smartphone (more or less) -> this

What is next?

Can I run crysis?
LOL just kiddin

Those geeks, such wags. My sides ache.

[russell]

I don't see why they don't just build in this sort of thing to all TV's. All cloud based storage with a full Linux distro running.

[xoggoth]

How about this then? A paper thin flexible phone.

BBC News - Flexible phone made from electronic paper to debut

Mayeb one will be able tyo get a phone tattooed on soon.

[NickFitz]

The only barrier being that the lucky recipient must have an HDMI enabled TV (cost circa £399) and an HDMI cable (cost circa £15).

He's probably betting on the fact that hardware prices fall at such a rate that by next year, when this device becomes widely available, either HDMI will be a viable option, or HDMI-to-VGA will be an adequate stopgap and mean the computer itself will still be usable several years down the line when VGA is dead even in poorer parts of the world, which by then will be flooded with cast-off HDMI appliances that the citizens of more highly developed nations have replaced with the Next Big Thing.

[d000hg]

I don't see VGA going anytime soon. And why would you keep a $25 computer for several years...

[NickFitz]

I don't see VGA going anytime soon. And why would you keep a $25 computer for several years...

Because $25 is equal to six months' income where you live?

[DaveB]

The only barrier being that the lucky recipient must have an HDMI enabled TV (cost circa £399) and an HDMI cable (cost circa £15).

Yeah, they should have put an old VGA connector on the end, then all those CRT monitors that are going to landfill could be offered for free with these.

I've often thought that the desktop computer would end this sort of size anyway. Just a small box that communicates via wireless to kvm and optical drive, or a universal connector to a hub in the interim.

Maybe the evolution of mobile phones will take us to that point anyway pretty soon.

I was thinking the same thing. Great idea undermined by "let them eat cake" syndrome.

£15 for a cable, they saw you coming.

Also, can't you get HDMI->VGA converters for a fiver? I agree that HDMI is a bit of boo-boo though.

I don't see VGA going anytime soon. And why would you keep a $25 computer for several years...

HDMI is there to power it. HDMI devices can provide a 5v feed to external devices. Originally intended to be used by "Smart" HDMI devices to provide power to read data back from unpowered external devices.

[d000hg]

Because $25 is equal to six months' income where you live?

It won't last several years, a piece of cheap tat like that. And in several years something like this will cost the equivalent of about $1 and effectively be free.

[Old Greg]

Your new computer: a few inches long, $25

It sounds like something festering down the front of MF's trousers