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Manufacturer Picked For $100 Laptop

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the intel-ticked dept.

IZ Reloaded writes "MIT has picked Taiwanese firm Quanta to manufacture its $100 laptop. From PCWorld: 'Under terms of an agreement with One Laptop Per Child, Quanta will devote engineering resources to develop the $100 notebook design during the first half of the year, according to a statement issued by the group. At the same time, Quanta and the non-profit organization will explore the production of a commercial version of the laptop.'" Apparently they don't think it's ineffectual either.

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  1. Re:"Business at the Speed of Thought"-ish? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Brilliant! you can plough a field with a $100 laptop. you can sow them in the fields and eat them. you can use them to catch fish, and you can use them to provide rain to desert.

    oh hang on, no you can't. This is a bunkum idea from start to finish and is just westerner idealism based on what they'd like to have grown up with as kids.

    Watch it become known as one of the biggest tech failures of the decade.

  2. Re:Let's get them all out of the way now... by God'sDuck · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Did I miss any?

    only one: "I B41LDZ3D MIN3 L4PTOPZ F0R ONLYZ 98 DO11AR$ AND 1TZ M3G4FAST SO QU4NT4 IZ THE DUMZZERS!!!!!!!!111111two.

  3. mod dOwn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    paranoid cons4irac7 balance is struck, recent Sys Admin

  4. Re:"Business at the Speed of Thought"-ish? by eldavojohn · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Or potentially find a web page written by another bushman describing the best way to skin a wildebeest.
    I don't really know a decent way to deal with racist/ignorant comments. I guess I'll start by saying that people are extremely resourceful regardless of their nationality. I'll also bet that these "bushmen" you speak of know (on average) more languages than Americans.
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  5. mod u4 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    So that their would choose to use vitality. Its shitheads. *BSD 3 simple steps! If you answered would chhose to use

  6. Duh by NotoriousGOD · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Of course they'd need cheap Taiwanese labor. Only by paying 8 year olds 5 cents an hour could they make any profit.

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  7. stupid socialist laptop by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    We should fire all those MIT morons... For all their knowledge of math these idiots cant compete with the free market. This stupid laptop bullshit is the perfect example.. It is a disaster. What these MIT idiots need is to get laid, and get a real job in the private sector as far away from gov money as possible.