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by cubano 4125 days ago
While I like the direction they are taking, I am still kinda scratching my head at the use cases.

Seniors who need a basic websurfer with malware proctection?

[edit] I guess third-world users too, but like others have remarked, the power consumption is pretty brutal.

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From the first paragraph of their blurb:

"Symple PC gives classroom labs, non-profits and call centers a..."

They are aiming it at cost-sensitive groups that need to buy a bunch of workstations.

Those people have all the incentives of scale to want low-power computers instead.