Google PC?

**tesco** · 01-03-2006, 07:42 PM

[news=http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/3187/google7yk.gif]Google will unveil its own low-price personal computer or other device that connects to the Internet. Sources say Google has been in negotiations with Wal-Mart Stores Inc., among other retailers, to sell a Google PC. The machine would run an operating system created by Google, not Microsoft's Windows, which is one reason it would be so cheap — perhaps as little as a couple of hundred dollars.

Bear Stearns analysts speculated in a research report last month that consumers would soon see something called "Google Cubes" — a small hardware box that could allow users to move songs, videos and other digital files between their computers and TV sets. Larry Page, Google's co-founder and president of products, will give a keynote address Friday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Analysts suspect that Page will use the opportunity either to show off a Google computing device or announce a partnership with a big retailer to sell such a machine.

Source: LA Times | Neowin.net[/news]

**twisterX** · 01-03-2006, 09:09 PM

cool

**Chewie** · 01-03-2006, 10:32 PM

Gosh! Moving files from a computer to a TV? Whoever would've thought of that?

**maebach** · 01-04-2006, 04:46 PM

google. I think they're doing too much.

**Chewie** · 01-04-2006, 05:58 PM

I agree; they appear to be looking for a market that isn't there.

**shazzar** · 01-04-2006, 06:31 PM

I think they are trying to provide access to the massive data content of movies and pictures etc they have in there database. Just that i read somewhere they were were going to allow ppl to download tv programs to watch on the mobile phone etc.