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Keyboard PC design recalls Amiga era

by Parm Mann on 27 March 2008, 10:24

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James Sherwood of The Register reports:

Cybernet's Zero-footprint PC (ZPC), as it's curiously called since it has a non-zero footprint, integrates a standard PC's internals under the keyboard. There's room in there for up to 750GB of hard drive storage, 4GB of 667MHz DDR 2 memory, an optical drive and an Intel Core 2 Quad processor.

A DVD burner's built into the side

The optical drive sits in the side, just like the floppy drive did in the Commodore machine. If you’d rather surf the web than watch films though, then an extra $100 (£50/€65) gets you internal 802.11g Wi-Fi. An Ethernet port comes as standard.

Many, many ports

Four USB ports come as standard too, and although slots for memory cards aren’t stated as an option, pictures of the PC do show several built into the front of the unit. You can also see serial and parallel ports, long with VGA and DVI for monitor connections.

Another picture also shows a swipe reader for credit cards added onto the PC, which is sure to come in handy for a bit of cyber-squandering.

The ZPC is available now from online retailer Cybernet, with prices starting at around $630 (£315/€350).



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I'm struggling to see the point in this?
Well what if you woke up one morning and thought to yourself; “what I really need is a laptop without a screen, that would be cool!”.

This then would be your problem solved? :surrender:
Its pretty good must admit, been looking at the customisable options with it and the only thing really missing is being able to put a decent graphics board in it. If they can somehow work out how to do that I reckon it would sell pretty well across the board instead of just primarily for business, schools etc

Something like that is a lot smaller than having a larger bulky case, ideal for people on the move that want more power than a laptop. Could be quite good for lan parties if they done something with the graphics.
Lol it does bring back amiga memories!

I like it, think its a great idea. Something like this may help pull wireless transmission to the monitor to the the playing field which would be ace!
Neat idea - good for people who don't want boxes shoved by their knees as well :)