Sunday, November 13, 2005
Walmart to carry $400 laptops?
There's been some vaporrware coming out of MIT from Nick Negroponte about $100 laptops for third world schoolkids - a good idea ruined by putting governments rather than markets in charge of distribution. $400 is 4 times $100, but it's a step closer.
$400 desktops have been pretty common lately - I'm writing this on a $100 recycled P2, but laptops run a bit more. I havent seen the spec on the walmart product - just a passing mention on fox. But it seems like more proof of Moore's law and the trend toward ubiquitous computing.
There's been some vaporrware coming out of MIT from Nick Negroponte about $100 laptops for third world schoolkids - a good idea ruined by putting governments rather than markets in charge of distribution. $400 is 4 times $100, but it's a step closer.
$400 desktops have been pretty common lately - I'm writing this on a $100 recycled P2, but laptops run a bit more. I havent seen the spec on the walmart product - just a passing mention on fox. But it seems like more proof of Moore's law and the trend toward ubiquitous computing.
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