For $150, Third-World Laptop Stirs a Big Debate

[Daniel Armstrong]

n 11/30/06, Rick Tomaschuk <rickl-ZACYGPecefkm4kRHVhTciCwD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> North America has so many 'obsolete' computers it seems a waste to send
> them to China, etc. to be broken down for scrap when they could be used
> in developing countries. $150 laptop??? How about an obsolete PIII for
> $25.00 running Linux and a $10.00 obsolete monitor.

One of the very cool features of these OLPC devices is the wifi mesh
capabilities, but they don't have much in the way of local storage -
maybe a recycling program could provide some servers for local area
storage/networking.

Hey Colin... You should jumpstart a proposal to your gang down at
Eastern Ave.! :-)


-- 
Daniel Wayne Armstrong
:: build_it_yourself biology      http://biohackery.com ::
--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://gtalug.org/
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists