I didn't say that. Thanks to this Piece o crap mail client my conversations aren't threaded or indented properly. I'd have to manually put the greater than symbol on each line.

If AOhelL were to distribute such a thing, it would ONLY work with AOhelL This is how I got my webplayer. Virgin launched a free ISP and sent out these laptop like devices running Linux on a disk on chip w/ a geode processor. The box prolly cost around a couple hundred. It had and has severe limitations. That same box, you could prolly make for a hundred today or maybe even $90, but it will be old tech. It's a P-200 equivalent and came w/ 64MB ram and I think a 64MB disk on chip, 10 inch screen of low quality. I'll bring it sometime and you can see what I've done to it so far.

Brian Kelsay

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Oren Beck oren_beck@hotmail.com 04/12/05 03:57PM >>>

Brian Kelsay wrote:

Yes, the cost of replacement is far greater than the cost of the computer, when you're talking about Windows. Especially when the licenses are tied to the hardware.

So a corporation might hold onto a low productivity computer rather than engage in an expensive upgrade of which only a small part is the cost of the computer.

<snip> Or perhaps AOL deciding to saturate the market with cheap computers suited to their target market of new zero base users. IF the "fresh meat" has zero to unlearn Linux is more viable!

Oren

" Like- how weird- there were these stacks of aol free trial disposable laptops"