Zonbu

What's small, silent, green and cheap? HaHa, bet you'll never guess the answer. It's a new computer called a Zonbu that will be launched sometime in September by a Tech Start Up Company in Menlo Park, California. The computer runs on 20X less electricity and that's supposed to cost $10.00 less a month to run than the average computer. It comes loaded with Open Source software which is managed online so that you don't have to pay for or manage or waste any more of your time in computerland hell. No back ups, no scans, no viruses, no reinstalls, but no privacy for your documents, but maybe you don't care... The cost is only $99.00 plus up front subscription fees that range according to how much storage you want. This must be paid 2 years in advance.

This sounds great. The company hasn't committed to a launch date though. Sigh, how astrologically incorrect. Hope they don't make any iPhone mistakes with the chart. Virgo is a nice sign for a computer but there are some tricks to avoid. There's a Total Lunar Return on Aug. 28, 2007 and a Partial Solar Return on Sept. 11, 2007. Wonder if they will choose a Libra Sun though. All month long there will be an opposition from Mars to Pluto and from Venus to Neptune and Sept. 24 and Sept. 30 take advantage of these possible afflictions and turns one or the other of them into Kites (depends on time of day too). Virgo Sun says "Back To School" to me, while Libra Sun says "Second Computer" which is the market the CEO's say they are striving for. Will be interesting to see which date is chosen.

Other attempts to make an eco-friendly computer have failed. According to an article in the San Jose Mercury News a big first attempt was made in the mid-90s by Larry Ellison of Oracle called Network Computer.