Roy Schestowitz wrote:
Would you buy an upmarket 2B1 (ex OLPC)?
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| I was trying to look for something similar to the 2B1 (ex OLPC) laptop
| that is going to be sent soon. The Ultra mobile PC market is a niche one
| where prices are rarely under £1000. The nearest design I found is the
| Flybook V23i Home Sub-Notebook which costs £1629 including VAT, nearly
| 20 times the 2B1.
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| It doesn't take a genius to figure out that an upmarket 2B1 (let's call
| it 2B2) laptop would be an instant killer, probably selling tens of
| millions within one year.
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http://opensourceblog.itproportal.com/?p=157
I've been trying to buy an ultracheap laptop to take on my camping trip
down to Portland's John Day Fossil Beds the week after next.
I don't currently own a laptop.
I've been attempting to bid on this
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=ADME:B:ONA:US:11&Item=120028149948
The vendor seems to release these ThinkPads every six hours starting at
$3.00 and by the time the auction is over they end up at about $200
(plus $30 shipping).
I'm thinking I could Ubuntu-ize it.
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Texeme Construct
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