For those who wanted the OLPC laptop

[Walter Dnes]

  It still won't be available, but a reasonable facsimile thereof is due
to be made by Quanta.  Warning, long URL
< http://www.ft.com/cms/s/6d086a62-dcb3-11db-a21d-000b5df10621,_i_rssPage=81cea682-52a8-11da-8d05-0000779e2340.html >

>   The Taiwanese contract manufacturer is already producing a laptop
> developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers that
> will be distributed to children in third-world countries under a
> non-profit project called One Laptop Per Child  for as little as $150.
> 
>   But Michael Wang, Quantas president, said on Tuesday that the
> concepts developed through the OLPC project could be applied to
> create commercially viable machines that are cheaper than anything
> on the market so far.
  [...deletia...]
>   He said the cheapest models were likely to be sold without hard
> disks, have small screens and run on open-source software, like the
> OLPC version.

  Wheeeeeeeeeeee!!!

  Here's a concept for how to lock Microsoft out of a market... low spec
computers that Vista simply can't load on, let alone operate fast on.

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