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The Sub-$100 Laptop?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the no-extras-like-disk-drives-and-batteries dept.

Vollernurd writes "The BBC is carrying this article detailing Nick Negroponte's plans to deveop and distribute a sub-$100 notebook computer. It would be very basic and stripped down and be used in developing countries as a way of distributing school books and such. Interesting to see how they will cut costs. Yes, it does run Linux." You can read another slashdot story about this machine when it was discussed on Red Herring awhile ago.

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  1. Re:Not just developing countries by colmore · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ok, I've never understood this exactly.

    Let's suppose I'm near broke, have little in the way of morals, and my laptop falls down a flight of stairs, how would I go about locating a five-finger discount retailer?

    I've asked a few vendors in recreational pharmaceuticals, but they don't know.

    I'm not going to do this of course, I've got a decent job and a computer that is working fine, but I wonder about all those laptops that vanish from school libraries. Do they go straight to ebay and pawn shops, or is there a way of locating small-scale college town black markets that I don't know about?

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