$100 laptop running Linux
Leo Mauler
webgiant at yahoo.com
Sat Apr 9 11:49:34 CDT 2005
--- Steven Danz <steven-danz at 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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