The Hundred-Buck PC

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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I'll sell you my IBM PC300PL for $100

[gelfling]

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.

Why restrict sales?

[Pig Hogger]

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...

Re:But does it

[Anonymous Coward]

it'll fit in your ass, cockmaster

Touch pads in the future NEED to be "one button"!

[Anonymous Coward]

Touch pads in the future NEED to be "one button"!

The gui of the mac is for the far future when a placemat+screen unrolled on a table is the entire compujter.

The mac uses one mouse button for click drag double-click and the interface is well suited for finger driven touch pads.

Steve jobs mentioned this ages ago and so did I.

A two button or three 4 5 6 button interface is insane because you need to use multiple contact points on the pad.. the pad has no ability to read your goddamned mind to know WHICH finger you are using, at least for many many decades afterward with ultrasensitive fingerprint scanning.

so ONE mouse button is the future

even the NexT computer by steve jobs had two buttons but BOTH were set to the same action by default for intuitive simplicity.

what the hell is a right button? is it fair to left handed people? no.

the single mouse button is the BEST gui for the future and Macintosh once again leads the way

by the way, if a retard luddite wants to use command lines under OSX or attach a 3 button mouse they can

some products apple sells will not even funtion AT ALL with a two button mouse, not at all. For example the 15,000 dollar 3d rendering product SHAKE (pc price, osx price is only 10,000 dollars) has a cad modeller that cannot funtion at all under OSX with only 2 mouse buttons and apple laughs at the insanity of 2,3,4,5,6 button idiocy

that is why we need to not ruin GUIs with extra buttons

in the near future a flexi-mat computer WILL NEED to be one mouse button, so quit being retarded linux fanboys and think for a minute of the future.

It should pay off well

[sl4shd0rk]

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

Damn, that's stupid

[Anonymous Coward]

It was pretty cool knowing that what little I was doing had the potential to churn out some hackers in remote parts of Africa, where even electricity is hard to come by.

Yeah, right. Great way for the average illiterate tribesman to use that electricity-that-is-hard-to-come-by in the middle of dark Africa.

At best, these computers are now buildingblocks in a bunch of huts.

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