Shortcast opinions and ideas » netpc http://www.gumza.com -zunGumza .. converse Fri, 21 Jan 2011 21:59:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Airtel joins the netbook revolution http://www.gumza.com/2009/05/25/airtel-joins-the-netbook-revolution/ http://www.gumza.com/2009/05/25/airtel-joins-the-netbook-revolution/#comments Mon, 25 May 2009 16:53:20 +0000 TTB http://www.gumza.com/2009/05/25/airtel-joins-the-netbook-revolution/ Bharti Airtel has now launched a low cost net PC. The Airtel Net PC is being marketed in Airtel and Next stores in india for a cost of Rs7,999. Airtel is not the first entrant in this space. Novatium released a similar service last year making it affordable.

The device bundle is a 15-inch LCD monitor, keyboard and mouse. Storage is based on Cloud servers. The device does not have any optical media and uses Airtel broadband to connect to the Internet.

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The device is powered by Microsoft and Nivio Companion. Windows XP has been customized by Nivio and connected to a backend Linux server. The Airtel Net PC comes with an online storage of 10GB. One hundred percent of security of data has been assured. The packages being offered are Home at Rs. 699 per month, Professional at Rs. 899 per month and Business at Rs. 1,199 per month.

Airtel plans to attract One million customers. Another advantage of the device is its low power consumption. Yet the moot point remains if users are willing to accept this kind of a device as a regular PC for their daily tasks. The major disadvantage is the lack of optical media that makes playing of games difficult. Hardware upgrades may not be available and the PC may become outdated very soon.

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