Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 22nd Nov 2005 16:24 UTC, submitted by Lunxer
Here is an 8 minute documentary about the recently unveiled 100$ laptop. It shows the laptop in action, and also discusses its aspects with one of the team members, such as the screen, the cheap keyboard, and much more. The video is in Quicktime, and this mirror gives better performance. My take: I am very, very, very impressed. The thought put into the details is just stunning. Every aspect of this machine has a function. Just astonishing.
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2005-06-29
It beats what some Canadian and American schools are doing by giving kids full fledged Apple iBooks or whatever Toshiba or Dell happens to offer them at a lower price. People mugging them stand to make anywhere between a few hundred and a thousand dollars by mugging grade school and high school kids.
School work, and quite frankly many jobs as well require you to have a computer which has internet access, a capable web browser and an office suite. If the kids need computers for school, which they do these days, than cheap laptops with a low resale value seem ideal.
At my school many kids carry around a lot more than $100 worth of stuff with them, the most recent theft that I remember hearing about was a CAD ~$500 iPod nano.
These would be great if they were available in most retail electronics store chains throughout the world for a similar price, that way people wouldn't have to pay ten times as much for more expensive laptops that do much more than they need.