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.
--- djgoku djgoku@gmail.com wrote:
On Apr 7, 2005 10:18 AM, Leo Mauler webgiant@yahoo.com wrote:
Now all I need is a few of those available here...
:(
I have a $60 laptop running Linux but I doubt
those
$100 machines in Third World Countries are as
low-end
as P90 laptops with 16MB RAM.
I have a P75 w/ 8MB RAM card, with OBSD, the card looks similar to a pcmcia card but is for ram =). Runs kinda sllow =), I wish you could find a >500Mhz for $100.
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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. 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.
--- djgoku djgoku@gmail.com wrote:
On Apr 7, 2005 10:18 AM, Leo Mauler webgiant@yahoo.com wrote:
Now all I need is a few of those available here...
:(
I have a $60 laptop running Linux but I doubt
those
$100 machines in Third World Countries are as
low-end
as P90 laptops with 16MB RAM.
I have a P75 w/ 8MB RAM card, with OBSD, the card looks similar to a pcmcia card but is for ram =). Runs kinda sllow =), I wish you could find a >500Mhz for $100.
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On Thursday 07 April 2005 08:31 pm, Steven Danz wrote:
), it would be nice to have a place to send things that corporations consider 'too slow to maintain productivity', whatever that is.
That would be having two people who are making well over $25/hr standing around waiting for something to load on a machine that could be replaced for less than $2,000.
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