The Zombu has made a bit of noise in the global news last week, the least you could expect from a device marketed as a 99$ computer (in reality it’s more around 250$).

It is an interesting concept, a cheap computer reduced to the minimum (processor, USB ports, a bit of memory), using online resources like Amazon S3 for storage. Unfortunately this last detail probably makes it unusable in developing countries (few cable or ADSL in Africa) and probably a bit slow when working with large documents or pictures. Upload is so painful with our asynchronous connections.

While this computer still looks a bit too complicated and less sexy than a mac mini, there are more and more strong signs that the price of owning a computer will be dramatically reduced in the coming months, between the 100$ latop, india’s 47$ machine and this box.

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