Comments on: A Digital Divide within a Divide?

By: Uzair Iqbal

Uzair Iqbal — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 13:19:57 +0000

I just don’t get how such a highly cost effective laptop is such a highly cost effective laptop. I mean, this is probably the cheapest device you can run the internet on(After decade-old P2s)

By: bowerbird

bowerbird — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 23:19:09 +0000

brian said:
> Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has proposed
> that the Commonwealth buy the $100 laptops
> for the 500,000 students in the state.

you know some will be on ebay the very next day,
with a minimum bid of $200, don’t you? :+)

heck, at $100 a pop, i’d buy three of ‘em.

even if the only power was via that crank…

-bowerbird

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 19:27:25 +0000

It does run Linux.

AMD, Brightstar, Google, News Corporation, and Red Hat are corporate partners in the $100 Laptop Project, which raises some interesting possibilities. Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has proposed that the Commonwealth buy the $100 laptops for the 500,000 students in the state.

If you take a look at the product images, the laptop converts into an e-book tablet, and the display also has a high contrast black and white mode perfect for e-book reading even in bright sunlight.

By: Alslayer

Alslayer — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 18:50:26 +0000

You know that device is gonna run Linux. No way Microsoft will ever let a device like that have their OS on it.

It looks neat though.

By: bowerbird

bowerbird — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 16:35:29 +0000

where can those of us in the “first world”
get one of these nifty $100 machines?

-bowerbird