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The Hundred-Buck PC

Posted by michael on from the buy-two-get-one-free dept.

skreuzer writes "MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte has a plan to build a $100 PC for the developing world, which is supposedly going to have a 14-inch color screen and run on Linux, has the backing of AMD, Google, Motorola, Samsung, and News Corp. Apparently they're all getting mixed up in a joint-venture to produce the PC, which will be sold directly to governments only."

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  1. I'll sell you my IBM PC300PL for $100 by gelfling · · Score: 0, Troll

    Let me know - P2/400, 288MB RAM, 40GB Drive, CDRW. It's worth about $100 bucks.

    BUT BECAUSE OUR SOFTWARE FROM SEATTLE SUCKS DICK

    You need a fucking Mongocomputer to run it.

  2. Why restrict sales? by Pig+Hogger · · Score: 0, Troll
    Why accept only million-unit plus orders, from governments only? To please the Dells, Apple and HPs?

    By asking for at least a million units, you can bet your ass that some corrupt third-world government (aren't they all corrupt, in the third-world?) will gladly sell them on the gray market for $200...

    And if it's a laptop, they could get away selling it at $500...

  3. It should pay off well by sl4shd0rk · · Score: 0, Troll

    All those developing countries are just waiting to be exploited by capitalism over the internet.

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