Re: $100 laptop developement proposed

r2000swler@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I suspect that this idea, like many noble ideas, is a pipe dream'.
> But given the decreasing costs of electronics who knows. And I
> can't see microsoft standing by and letting the grass be cut
> under their feet. The alternative power schemes are attactive to
> a technosurvivialist.
> For details see:
> <http://laptop.media.mit.edu/>

The sad part is that you won't get one unless you live in the 3rd world.

And even if you do, you won't get one because they will only be sold to
schools and institutions and not to individuals.

I don't know why, but they don't want us to have these.


>From the website:
"They are not-and will not-be available for purchase by individuals."


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