laptops for kids for $ 100

[William Park]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 02:55:33PM -0400, Zbigniew Koziol wrote:
> "50 percent of cost of today's laptops is in sales promotion, marketing, 
> etc.  We have none of that cost.  The rest of it is the display ? and we 
> have a lot of expertise working to bring the cost of that down to $35. 
> As for the rest of the parts, at least 75 percent of it is there to 
> support the weight of the operating system…I'm not just picking on 
> Microsoft.  This is true of Adobe and others as well.  Invariably, next 
> release [of software] is worse than next one… It's gotten so fat, so 
> slow, so obese, so unreliable that it's time to start over and dumb it 
> down with skinny Linux ? skinny open source."
> 
> More at http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1935

Toronto Star has an article on $100 Laptop.

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