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 The Zonbu is here.....He's small, sleek, has no windows and comes from France.
Perhaps the most interesting thing to happen to modern mainstream computing in a while? No hard drive? Off your nelly?
As a $99 dollar PC that comes packaged with a subscription fee to an online storage service to keep all your data secure, it offers an utterly new computing model.
Although I have never seen a Zonbu, never touched one, been near one or even been the same as room one, I am totally taken with this little dude. Hopefully in the next few weeks I'll get my mucky lil' paws on one and then I'll be able give you the real low down on the most innovative computing model since the abacus.
It is, I am sure, the first ever mainstream PC to be sold without a hard drive. The Zonbu relies on web-based storage to take care of the users data using a 'transparent overlay filesystem'. Such a system means that data is instantly backed up on to a server in the background while you work.
Running a Linux operating system that has been optimized for ease of use, and packing twenty or so applications right out of the box, the Zonbu is carving its own path in the world. Will it catch on? Does it actually work the way it says it will?
TechnoVoyance is here to reveal all. We are due to get some Zonbus (or is it Zonbi?) fairly soon and frankly speaking; I can't wait.
Here's a blog about the Zonbu from an eco-friendly perspective.
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