My mother sent me these links wanting to know if I thought it would be suitable for my grandmother:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolog...ly-online.html

http://www.discount-age.co.uk/simplicity_computers/

the idea being to have a six button interface which easily shows everything that a light internet/computer user may want. The computers run a linux distro with custom UI which all seems well and good.

The pros being that it requires no computer knowledge and wont suffer from virus attacks. Hopefully it all just works. My reservation though is that the price seems high for something so basic.

My question for the community is do you think the pricing is reasonable and could something similar could be achieved using any ordinary linux box?