mdma:
It could be something for the kids christmas stocking if packaged up and marketed right.
No, it wouldn't :-)
You do of course realize this would require that it's capable of running at least Quake 3? Many of today's (cheap) high-spec (compared to this machine) PCs are aimed directly at young gamers. It would be like getting a SNES when you wanted a PS2...
MarkTime:
Amazing how this product exists, when we've been assured repeatedly and vigorously, that economies of 'scale' make it impossible to sell a PowerPC box at anything but two or three times more expensive than your typical PC.
This is a low-spec 200MHz 603-based computer without graphics, case, keyboard, monitor etc. It's just the MoBo. The economics you're refering to probably discussed at least G3-based systems with AGP. Check out Apple's pricing and then compare it to what you get in a PC for the same amount of money. I'm just discussing hardware here, not which OS is better. Apple are significantly more expensive. For the price of an entry-level iMac you can get a 3GHz towered Dell PC with a stand-alone 17" flat screen, DVD+/-RW, twice as much memory and a better graphics card, complete with Windows XP and MS Works.
Bottom line: For $160 you can get an Asus MoBo including an Intel Celeron at 2.4GHz. I can't see why you'd want to buy a 200Mhz single-board computer for the same price unless it was for the geek-coolness factor that someone mentioned earlier.
