Another step taken towards $100 Laptop

[netfreak]

The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) organization, which hopes to bring a $100 laptop championed by MIT's Nicholas Negroponte, has selected Quanta to serve as its original design manufacturer, or ODM. ODMs typically manufacture products, but also participate substantially in the final design.[/b]

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1040_22-5994056...g=zdfd.newsfeed

 

[max]

Its technically feasible but of no real use...

 

[netfreak]

I will not write it off so soon.For quite a few execs, blackberry is more vauable then their desktop / laptop. Ans this laptop is going to be more powerful then blackberry (I guess, still no clarity of specs).

 

[max]

eh? Its a "One Laptop Per Child" scheme. It's not for execs.

 

[netfreak]

Yaa, but if such a disfuctional device (blackberry) is useful, then this laptop should better be.

 

[max]

but the fact remains - its not targetted for execs!

 

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[netfreak]

yaa its not, but if someonce can surf the net and check emails that's definetly useful.

 

[max]

that can be done with smart pdas.