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The $45 Windows Laptop
YokimaSun writes "The search for a cheap laptop has brought us news from India of a $10 laptop (which later turned out to be a hundred dollars). Today PC Gaming News has details of a laptop which is selling for a measly 45 dollars, what do you get for that, you get a netbook running windows embedded compact 7, 128 megs of ram, a via8505 processor and a 7 inch screen capable of 800x480 pixels resolution." I'm still waiting for my under $50 Macbook.
"I'm still waiting for my under $50 Macbook."
You'd have better luck waiting for Duke Nuke- ...er..wait.. guess we can't use that one anymore.
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Why would you need more than 128MB to connect to a VM, that'd be a simple dumb terminal... I'm pretty sure dumb terminals at that resolution can run just fine with those specs.
Once Corporate IT gets ahold of it, it'll need 4GB and a couple of cores just to keep up with Symantec Endpoint Protection.
:wq
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I don't frankly care if something is 2 inches or 2.5 inches thick. Nor wether it has 800 resolution which I won't be using anyway. What I do care about is a floppy disk drive, plenty of serial ports and an a dial-up modem so I don't have to rely on shit dongles when in an office or at home.
Oh , but it doesn't have that.
Laptops in general are nothing more than vanity machines for people with more money than sense.
Mod me down fanboys, I care not and I have karma to burn.
Every time I've seen this sort of comparison, closer inspection has revealed that the Apple laptop in question has a number of other features that the cheaper one doesn't.
Yes, it had an Apple logo on the lid.
"I'm still waiting for my under $50 Macbook."
You'd have better luck waiting for Duke Nuke- ...er..wait.. guess we can't use that one anymore.
It's spelled H a l f l i f e 3.