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2nd Generation "$100 Laptop" Will Be an E-Book Reader

waderoush writes "At a conference sponsored by the One Laptop Per Child Foundation this morning, OLPC founder unveiled the design for the foundation's second-generation laptop. It's actually not a laptop at all — it's a dual-screen e-book reader (we've got pictures). Negroponte said the foundation hopes that the cost of the new device, which is scheduled for production by 2010, can be kept to $75, in part by using low-cost displays manufactured for portable DVD players."

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  1. speculation by alta · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Anyone care to speculate why waderoush would want to crash his own servers?

    Until I ad a few more servers to the farm, I wouldn't try direct linking from the front page of /.

    Currently I have 3MB fiber, 2 Opteron 2.0GHz with 4GB, both pointing to a 8 core xeon with 6 spindles and 8GB Ram... I was going to ask yall how long you think it could take the load, but there's a lot of difference between posting index.php and spacer.gif... So nevermind.

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  2. Re:Bye bye books by bsDaemon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well, my karma is already "excellent" -- so unless there is a "nirvana" option that no one but Taco and Cowboy Neal have gotten to yet, then I don't need to try that hard.

  3. Re:Bye bye books by mhall119 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You'd get even more karma if you can work in blaming the RIAA/MPAA too.

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  4. Re:Bye bye books by slimjim8094 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    CowboyNeal's karma is squarely in the 'Creepy' category.

    CmdrTaco, however, obviously does have 'Nirvana' karma. How could it be any other way?

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