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Jobs Offers Free Mac OS X For $100 Laptops

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the it's-the-thought-that-counts dept.

bonch writes "Steve Jobs offered Mac OS X free of charge to the $100 laptop effort by the One Laptop Per Child project. However, his offer was declined because the project was looking for a 100% open source solution. The laptops will now be running on Red Hat Linux on AMD chips."

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  1. Re:Hardware Requirements?! by bani · · Score: 1, Troll

    I thought it was about the applications, of which most of them would not run very well on a $100 laptop, if at all. OSX barely runs at all on a G3 these days (you can coerce it, but it's awful). can't imagine how painful a $100 laptop would be.