What do they say about us?
We have provided a few beta units to some bloggers, reviewers and journalists. Here is what they have written about us.

loves Zonbu as a safe Kids PC or Second PC.  "It is quick, quiet, compact, easy to set up, fully loaded and downright cheap!  It's $99.00 purchase price and low $12.95 monthly fee are easily offset by power savings and, since software can not be loaded over the Internet, by eliminating the need for anti-virus and other software subscriptions." Read more 

Forbes "As a second pc for the kids, the kitchen or the weekend house where you just need to browse the Web, it's a killer product. By Fake Steve Jobs." (10/15/07) Read more 

New York Times "The founders said that the PC had received the highest certification possible from the Green Electronics Council, a nonprofit group that has created a product classification standard known as Epeat (for Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool)." (07/15/07) Read more 

Free Software Magazine "It includes some features that really make it stand out from other PCs." (08/22/07) Read more 

Gizmodo "...amazingly as simple to use as a Mac... this machine syncs, swaps, and backs up your data automatically, over the wire. I love it." (05/23/07) Read more 

PC Magazine "A $99 PC with up to 100GB of storage, a small footprint, and the ability to play your multimedia files? That's pretty hard to believe, but the Zonbu PC pulls it off." (05/24/07) Read more 

Craig's blog "I've been using it for weeks as my primary customer service machine, and it delivers as promised. It uses little power, and has a complete set of applications for $99, period." (07/16/07) Read more 

Wired - Geek Dad "I really think this may be the perfect solution for setting up a pretty indestructible computer for my kids. [...] I may pick up one of these for the kids, and then one as a kitchen internet station." (05/25/07) Read more 

TechNewsWorld "It does give you an impressive number of features and unique benefits at a low entry price of US$99, and then wraps the product with an inexpensive monthly fee attached to Web 2.0-like services that appear to be worth the fee. The software package is impressively complete as well." (07/23/07) Read more 

Salon.com "An innovative business model, one inspired by modern computing realities: it's what's on the network, and not what's on your machine, that really matters." (08/02/07) Read more 

Behind the Times "Zonbu's key features are its incredibly low power consumption, network-connected storage and that it works right out of the box without any installation." (08/04/07) Read more 

ClientServerNews "Zonbu is basically telling consumers that it'll take any hardware repairs, software installations, updates and upgrades, configurations, data backups, disk defragmentation, virus and spyware checks, data migration and system corruption recovery off their hands, proposition that's got to appeal to the average Joe considering it's also cheap." (07/23/07) Read more 

LuMen Creative Group "So what do you think? For grandma, a school kid, or someone that needs just the basics, I think this is the best idea anyone could have had." (05/29/07) Read more 

GristMill "Given how fast people go through PCs, this is a great idea - much more affordable, and upgradeable, and with far less environmental consequence." (07/17/07) Read more 

Gizmodo "And for you greenies, remember, this baby uses just 10 watts while a standard PC uses 200 watts, and it has EPEAT Gold status for using only earth-friendly materials. Put that in Al Gore's pipe and smoke it." (07/17/07) Read more 

EcoGeek "Depending on your current set-up, using a Zonbu could save you more in utilities than you'll be paying for the subscription. An excellent enticement." (05/08/07) Read more 

Shift Backspace "... the use of Amazons S3 servers is fantastic..." (05/23/07) Read more 

Geek.com "The ideal buyer will be an undemanding user who is tired of dealing with spyware and viruses and simply wants to surf the Internet safely." ...or, a more experienced user wanting additional low cost and low maintenance convenience PC(s). (07/16/07) Read more 

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