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Zonbu Zonbox
Pricing & Add-Ons
Zonbu offers a few different service plans for the Zonbox. First is the mainstream $99 upfront and $12.95/mo subscription. This provides for 25GB of online data storage, including data backup, OS and application maintenance (patches), application upgrades (new versions), as well as Internet-based support and a box replacement guarantee - because what good is signing up for a multi-year agreement if the box only has a one-year warranty? There are also $14.95 and $19.95/mo plans that respectively offer 50 and 100GB of online data storage. The device is really $249; however, Zonbu subsidizes the hardware and sells the box for $99 with a two-year agreement, or $199 with a one-year plan. You can choose to buy the box outright for $249 and pay month-to-month (or not at all and not have any service), but given how Zonbu has a friendly cancellation policy - you get refunded any prepayment you make minus the hardware subsidy and you keep the box - it makes sense to dive in headfirst. Zonbu also sells add-ons for the Zonbox: a WiFi adapter for $20 and an external USB 2.0 CDRW/DVD combo drive for $49, both of which are priced very well. The drive should be able to play back DVDs (the website says the graphics chip sports MPEG-2 acceleration), but since I don't have any way to independently verify that, I'll leave it as an exercise left to the reader.
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3 User Comments 1 - Posted by
handrail
on August 7, 2007 - 4:27 pm seems like this would be a much better idea if it could use a large format solid state hdd rather than the online storage. maybe when the larger SSDs come along, this will be a more feasible concept?
2 - Posted by
Max Slowik
on August 7, 2007 - 7:08 pm You can get CF cards in what, 16 and 32GB flavors? Holy crap, they're cheap. $125 for 16GB. It seems like just last year that would buy you 512MB. 3 - Posted by
handrail
on August 8, 2007 - 10:37 am yeah, in a year i'm sure they'll be up to the 100+ GB sizes. i can't wait for those. i've been holding out on serial drives in favor of the SSDs.
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