MTNL to Offer PC for Rs. 4,500

If you happen to be a Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL) customer in Mumbai and Delhi, you will soon be able to get a PC for as low as Rs. 4,500. This PC, is being offered by MTNL in partnership with Chennai-based Novatium and comes with an internet connection for a small monthly fee.

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4500? what config would that be?

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Customers have the choice of using either Windows or Linux operating systems. Since the entire concept is routed through a centralized server, customers are saved the hassles of hardware and software costs as well as upgrades as these tasks are carried out centrally.

So finally we are going close to the Idea of Grid computing

waoh !!!

i guess you could call it a dumb terminal right? I mean only some sort of a lean os is running on the machine and all main execution is done at the main servers?

Whos gonna provide the network bandwidth for that to work?

ilugd said:
i guess you could call it a dumb terminal right? I mean only some sort of a lean os is running on the machine and all main execution is done at the main servers?

Whos gonna provide the network bandwidth for that to work?

Bandwidth will be given by MTNL... and who will use it ?? hey Terminal Server with (CAL) is really really effective....

ilugd said:
i guess you could call it a dumb terminal right? I mean only some sort of a lean os is running on the machine and all main execution is done at the main servers?

Whos gonna provide the network bandwidth for that to work?

Its better called a thin client
good in IMO as the monitor costs of 3k are optional so one still get a second hand crt @2k then reduce 1k more

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one can use this as a "seedbox" ;-)

One thing that I'm not happy with is the 10/100 LAN port. They should have supported Gigabit ethernet 100/1000Mbps port because the main servers are managed within your locality and it's like increasing the FSB of your Motherborad if only it had a Gigabit port!

i hope they provide unlimited PC usage or atleast night unlimited PC usage

W i d e S c r e e N said:
one can use this as a "seedbox"

Right on the money! :lol:

but how does it work actually. what happens when i boot up the PC? do i get a full fledged OS like windows or linux or the embedded linux OS.

i think that it wont be so popular.
who is gonna buy such a lame computer.
now dont tell that many poor people will buy it! aare those who cant even afford two time meals a day wat will they do of this.
and those who fall in the lowest income range in middle class wont want want to spend money for network.
and for avg earnin people they can atleast afford a 15k comp with at least a bit good config

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Can't trust MTNL. All the information including your documents would be stored on their servers so if there is no network, you won't be able to access anything. There won't be any CPU, u would get only monitor(optional), keyboard and mouse. MTNL's servers would serve as CPU and even OS wud be installed there.