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World's first working $100 laptop
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I think it's amazing. Something that cheap could open up a lot of doors for people across the world.
Powermoloch
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hmmm which is beneficial......silicon cereals or goat meat...jk!
Anyways, I find it astonishing for a laptop costing 100 bucks? I would by 2 of them for my lil bros for x-mas
Anyways, I find it astonishing for a laptop costing 100 bucks? I would by 2 of them for my lil bros for x-mas
Looking at the specs, does it really need 1GB of RAM?
Still a great effort, I would buy one...sell the RAM and get a few bucks back.
Still a great effort, I would buy one...sell the RAM and get a few bucks back.
Yes, I'm sure the Africans would just love to form a fantasy football team before they either die of starvation or AIDS. By the looks of the pictures (the screen) it seems they're actually serious about aiming it towards them. I'm so confused.
Yeah..they had a bunch of leaders from African nations on NPR and it was just sad to hear how behind the times they are...even in South Africa
this is defintieyl a step in the right direction
more scammers was my first reaction, damn.
it would be fun to get one for my nephew and niece as a toy.
LOL, that's kind of what I was thinking.
"A year ago, researchers at MIT finally began sale of a $100 laptop, aimed primarily at poor children in developing nations. The device offers word processing and internet connectivity, among other features. Sales of the unit have far surpassed analysts' expectations."
"In a completely unrelated story, scam emails from overseas have quadrupled since this point last year. Researchers are baffled. More at eleven."
Originally posted by: Sluggo
Looking at the specs, does it really need 1GB of RAM?
Still a great effort, I would buy one...sell the RAM and get a few bucks back.
that's a 1GB flash drive, due to the lack of a hard drive.
Wow, I would have thought that something that coud run on so little power would be slower than 500MHz.
Freejack2
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Enh, if he succeeds good and bad will come with it.
Yeah there may be tons more scammer emails. Yeah a bunch of them will probably only make it into the hands of some corrupt leader who will sell them so he can be that much richer. Many will wind up in the hands of kids who will never learn how to use them. Many will end up in the closet at some school because not even the teacher will know how to use it and there is nobody to teach him or her.
Some will find their way into the hands of kids who are very bright but didn't until now have the education to realize this. Some will learn to do bad things with it and some will do good with them. We could see some kid in some third world country figure out how to take down half the internet because of some unseen exploit. We could see some kid find a renewable/unlimited energy source that will solve all the worlds power problems.
Mind you even if these laptops never come to fruition any of these things could happen. So I wish the man the best of luck in his endeavor.
Yeah there may be tons more scammer emails. Yeah a bunch of them will probably only make it into the hands of some corrupt leader who will sell them so he can be that much richer. Many will wind up in the hands of kids who will never learn how to use them. Many will end up in the closet at some school because not even the teacher will know how to use it and there is nobody to teach him or her.
Some will find their way into the hands of kids who are very bright but didn't until now have the education to realize this. Some will learn to do bad things with it and some will do good with them. We could see some kid in some third world country figure out how to take down half the internet because of some unseen exploit. We could see some kid find a renewable/unlimited energy source that will solve all the worlds power problems.
Mind you even if these laptops never come to fruition any of these things could happen. So I wish the man the best of luck in his endeavor.
It's funny how people think putting a computer, ANY computer in the hands of 3rd world contry citizens will suddenly make them part of the 1st world community.
How about famine relief, healthcare, and human rights?... bah... just give them laptops.
How about famine relief, healthcare, and human rights?... bah... just give them laptops.
Originally posted by: rmrf
Originally posted by: Sluggo
Looking at the specs, does it really need 1GB of RAM?
Still a great effort, I would buy one...sell the RAM and get a few bucks back.
that's a 1GB flash drive, due to the lack of a hard drive.
I swear when I posted that, there were different links up, that didnt quite have that much information.
Or maybe my imagination has run away with me.
When people in France were starving we had "Let them eat cake"....now in the new millenium we have "Let them watch porn".
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