Your next laptop upgrade?
Noteworthy news... always a pleasure to link:
"visionary Nicholas Negroponte, director of the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology..." is in the process of developing "his idea... of a new kind of laptop computer that will cost just $100 (£57) to buy."
"he expects to churn out about 15 million of them within one year, shipping most of them at first to children in Brazil, Egypt, Thailand and South Africa."
"laptops would be so distinctive in design and look that stealing and re-selling them would be akin to stealing furniture from a church."
I want to teach the world to surf, says the man who invented the $100 laptop
"visionary Nicholas Negroponte, director of the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology..." is in the process of developing "his idea... of a new kind of laptop computer that will cost just $100 (£57) to buy."
"he expects to churn out about 15 million of them within one year, shipping most of them at first to children in Brazil, Egypt, Thailand and South Africa."
"laptops would be so distinctive in design and look that stealing and re-selling them would be akin to stealing furniture from a church."
I want to teach the world to surf, says the man who invented the $100 laptop
6 Comments:
but could you game on it....
highly doubtful... which begs the question... is it even worth it at $100?!?!?
;)
hehe... as much as i love online gaming (and i do) i figure that would secondary to being online, as far as purpose for this laptop goes. AND as far as i'm concerned, personally, too. Given a choice, give-up games OR give-up online connectivity... and games would go. IMHO
http://laptop.media.mit.edu/ if your interested in reading more!
I find the concept novel and very generous in spirit. My hope is that what starts out as a "good deed" idea doesn't get bogged down by greed and burocracy and never see the light of day.
O.
maybe it could be like most things, and be bogged down by corporate sponsorship. ;)
Coca-Cola brings you the $100 laptop! and then it could be sprayed all over with a red and white theme, and coke logo's everywhere... and a non-changeable desktop theme of coca-cola...
;)
Co-branded laptops...Great concept, and it's already a reality...
i really hope this laptop from HUMMER does NOT run on OIL.
/highly doubting this is available for $100, let alone a $1000. gah.
at least that Hummer laptop isn't like the Panasonic Toughbooks... which were VERY expensive, and used 2 generation back components (uh huh... right panasonic... we don't believe that 'they don't build them like they used to' in CPU's!)
:D
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