Move over, OLPC -- the $12 Apple II-based PC is coming
By Nilay Patel 
posted August 5th 2008 6:37PM
posted August 5th 2008 6:37PM
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Man I didn't even wear lab glasses for chemistry. The guy in the bottom left wears them for doing computer upgrades.
I don't see what you did there.
Bottom right = guy from CSI Miami.
yeaaah! We wont get fooled again.
I'd buy one
The Apple II is the only Apple product I've truly liked :)
you've obviously never seen the door-stopping potential of an apple /// - Even suitable for apartment doors with the strong door closing mechanisms - never move without one.
(apple /// is also suitable as a boat anchor, trebuchet counter weight, anti-tank obstable. Consult a doctor before lifting, avoid exposing your apple /// to irresitable forces)
Just realized Apple is a gay company.
Look at their rainbow logo back in the days and now their macs are targeted to gay guys.
Almost every gay person i've known uses a MAC.
oh wait wrong article.
Anyways what's up with you all picking on these guys?
Because Engadget commentators are nothing but a bunch of haters...
Your named suggests you aren't so straight yourself.
"Almost every gay person i've known uses a MAC. "
Good god, why that's the most compelling evidence I've ever heard!
I'm not gay nor fond of Macs, but that comment was ignorant on so many different levels.
Wow. Thanks for the generalization, asshole!
"crooked style"? is that some desperate attempt to demonstrate street cred on a tech blog? thanks, crooked fail
apple used the rainbow before rainbows were gay
phanbouy is right you DO fail, if he says you failed you failed
umm, no he fails because he's an unfunny bigot douchebag homophobe failure, kinda like yourself, fake fanboy.
well, this is the thing they should be doing
Intel should make 600 mhz processors, 128mb of ram in computers, and a 40gb HD in a computer for 3rd worlds.
I have a computer with those stats, and it runs xp, and office 07 like a dream.. and if it ran linux it would be better yet...
128MB? I think you're the one who's dreaming. Bump it up to 512MB and you can run XP and a couple apps without too much waiting.
The 600 Mhz CPU is fine, though.
The C-64 is less powerful??
Riiiiight.
I would agree that an unexpanded C64 is more powerful than an unexpanded Apple II. It has a nice sound chip (vs. the 1-bit output on the Apple), more capable graphics (several modes vs. 2 basic modes on the Apple), and 64K memory standard (vs. 48K on the Apple without the expansion card).
But the nice thing about the Apple II was its fast floppy drive. After growing up with the Apple II, I was aghast at how slow the C64 floppy drive system was (in standard form, without speed-up software). It reminded me of when I had to load programs from cassette tape.
The Apple also had 8 slots to add peripheral cards to make up for its shortcomings (with one taken up by the 16K memory card).
Yeah, I didn't mean to make it an Apple vs. Commodore thing, but I worked for an educational software company in the late 80's as an assembly language programmer. So I became VERY familiar with both systems. With both the Apple and C-64 disk drives, it was pretty easy to replace the canned DOS with something more efficient so the load times were pretty much the same. On Apple, I think we usually used Diversi-DOS and for the C-64 I seem to remember some cartridge from Epyx that sped things up a ton.
I loved both computers...the Apple //c was just awesomeness, but the graphics and sound on the C-64 was really fun to work with too...
Anyone else slightly disturbed that the Boston Herald describes this as being a "computer-like device"?
VIVA LOS BEAGLE BROS.
Hell yeah! They made programming on the //e so much better...
Yes, yes I would pay for a 12$ apple ][
I am guessing that it will not come with a display (although an eink display would be mighty cool!)
Guy in the upper right: "I like the tin man".
theres plenty of silicon. i dont know what kind of computers you are using that are made from "cilicon" though
damn you comment system, damn you!
ryan that link doesnt work. :(
I really do appreciate those of you that defend the ridiculous comments here on Engadget, but at the end of the day I think you are all fueling these people into making more ridiculous comments.
Please just stick to the story and comment on that only!
When others make ridiculous comments... Ignore them.
I read these stories everyday, and I get so annoyed by reading a page(s) of off-topic garbage.
MIT == MADE IN TAIWAN!
Will it have a 5.25" drive? I need to finish the game of Ultima IV I started in 1987.
It looks like this entire components will fit into the keyboard; awesome.
It won't play neither Crysis or Doom, but at least it will play PSX games :)
Actually, going a step further and making a single chip Apple //gs with a 16 bit processor in a keyboard would be pretty kick ass. You would need an HDMI out though even if it was only an upscaled 640 x 480. NTSC/PAL are all but dead.
This is really a nes on a chip and a cart with computerish things on it.
I'm sorry but NTSC/PAL are NOT dead!