--- Steven Danz steven-danz@kc.rr.com wrote:
Leo Mauler wrote:
I have a PII-300Mhz I purchased for about $240 six months ago. The 500Mhz laptops at HyperTech computers (87th & Farley) are right between $300-$400.
300Mhz is decent enough for most things, not very good for video (VideoCD-quality MPEG1 videos run fairly well) but it will let me do basic graphics editing and browse on the Internet without painful "chuggachuggachugga" waits for the swap.
Heh, wonder if there could be a system for buying those $100 laptops from Third World Countries which resembles the mail-order Canadian prescription drug programs.
It seems like there should be.
Of course, the NSA will be like the FDA and Canadian mail-order drugs, and propagandize that terrorists are planning to use mail-order $100 laptops to spread viruses in America. :(
While I applaud efforts like the MIT group working on building new $100 laptops ( http://laptop.media.mit.edu/ ), it would be nice to have a place to send things that corporations consider 'too slow to maintain productivity', whatever that is.
The sad part is that most of them have a place to send them: E-Bay. And there on E-Bay your $100 laptops, which should be priced at $100, go to someone for $300.
Oh well, off to install Gentoo on a P90 with 16 MB RAM...fun city... :)
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