What's your thoughts on a $50 computer.

[irv]

This little device is easy to carry around, but to use it you also need a keyboard and mouse. The mouse will fit in my pocket, but not the keyboard. I will keep carrying my my laptop or tablet around because it's all in one.

[lykwydchykyn]

If I'm reading the article right, this is more than just tiny PC with android installed. It's a cloud-based thin client, that lets you basically remote into any kind of OS you want, presumably on some kind of Dell cloud service.

[forrestcupp]

I don't think Android is a bad choice for a TV computer. Android does Netflix a lot better than Ubuntu.

[irv]

I see another thread out here that talks about the freedombox which falls into this same catalog as this $50 computer. Actually it is more than a computer it is going to be a whole new way of communicating with one another. Here is an article from the NY Times.
It talks about this tiny server:

“They will get very cheap, very quick,” Mr. Moglen said. “They’re $99; they will go to $69. Once everyone is getting them, they will cost $29.”

It also said that:

This month, Mr. Moglen, who now runs the Software Freedom Law Center, spoke to a convention of 2,000 free-software programmers in Brussels, urging them to get to work on the Freedom Box.

I find a lot of what is happening very interesting.

EDIT: Here is a link on the Debian Freedombox project.