Sub $100 laptop
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Shamelessly pulled from the BBC, more on the link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4292854.stm
[quote=bbc]Nicholas Negroponte, chairman and founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Labs, has been outlining designs for a sub-$100 PC.
The laptop will be tough and foldable in different ways, with a hand crank for when there is no power supply.
Professor Negroponte came up with the idea for a cheap computer for all after visiting a Cambodian village.
His non-profit One Laptop Per Child group plans to have up to 15 million machines in production within a year.
Children in Brazil, China, Egypt, Thailand, and South Africa will be among the first to get the under-$100 (£57) computer, said Professor Negroponte at the Emerging Technologies conference at MIT.
The following year, Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney plans to start buying them for all 500,000 middle and high school pupils in the state.
A prototype of the machine should be ready in November at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunisia.
Professor Negroponte predicts there could be 100 million to 150 million shipped every year by 2007. [/quote]
Sounds like a good idea to me, I'd buy one just keep around for emergencies with the handcranked power supply. Whats the bet that in a few years all schools will require students to have something like this?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4292854.stm
[quote=bbc]Nicholas Negroponte, chairman and founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Labs, has been outlining designs for a sub-$100 PC.
The laptop will be tough and foldable in different ways, with a hand crank for when there is no power supply.
Professor Negroponte came up with the idea for a cheap computer for all after visiting a Cambodian village.
His non-profit One Laptop Per Child group plans to have up to 15 million machines in production within a year.
Children in Brazil, China, Egypt, Thailand, and South Africa will be among the first to get the under-$100 (£57) computer, said Professor Negroponte at the Emerging Technologies conference at MIT.
The following year, Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney plans to start buying them for all 500,000 middle and high school pupils in the state.
A prototype of the machine should be ready in November at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunisia.
Professor Negroponte predicts there could be 100 million to 150 million shipped every year by 2007. [/quote]
Sounds like a good idea to me, I'd buy one just keep around for emergencies with the handcranked power supply. Whats the bet that in a few years all schools will require students to have something like this?
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