@Panthro
No the CPU is not soldered directly onto the A1-lite.
But .....
Those 250$ do include (as I understand) RAM, and the case, while CPUs
(x86) and HDs are real cheap these days. Windows ma also come for free
(well I'm just honest here....), and running Linux would probraly be much
easier on such a sys.
VIA's mini-ITX-boards are really massproduced, and start well under
100$. Just checked, and found with a 1GHz C3-CPU for just 115 Euro,
includeing german vat.
I hardly see how Eyetech could compete with such prices, and how
a 300$ price-tag would allow more than a low-end G3, which wouldn't
be really stomping on the C3, while a G4 might raise the price to the
point where it would have to compete against a board with an Intel-CPU.
And yes a >2GHz Celeron is dirt-cheap, and should run relativly cool.
So, A1-lite will cost more in production (lower numbers), it will use
more expensive CPUs and it will have to carry licence-fees both for
the name and the OS.
Don't see how that could be sold in high-street shops to Joe-6pack.
