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First Photos of MIT $100 Laptop

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the only-a-matter-of-time dept.

An anonymous reader noted that MITs $100 laptop was unveiled at the Seven Countries Task Force Meeting. It runs a special version of the Fedora linux and it comes with native wireless lan support. You can see the photo album, and you can pledge to buy one at triple price... in order to donate 2 of them to children.

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  1. Re:Hand Powered? by Trigun · · Score: 5, Informative

    From what I've been reading on these ones, is that the pictured ones are not crank-powered. The dynamo ones will be made available though.

  2. Re:Freedom where art thou? by MindStalker · · Score: 5, Informative

    Did you even read the pledge to buy one page??

    It specifically stated that it was not associated with the MIT project and that infact that MIT has specifically stated that they cannot garantee that this is even possible. BUT it was implied that given a large enough order it may be. So some guy setup a website to see if he can meet a goal of 100,000 pledges in hope that MIT will agree.