On 23 Jul, 12:08, Mark Kent <mark.k...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>
> > '$100 laptop' production begins
>
> > ,----[ Quote ]
> >| Hardware suppliers have been given the green light to ramp-up production of
> >| all of the components needed to build millions of the low-cost machines.
> >| Previously, the organisation behind the scheme said that it required orders
> >| for 3m laptops to make production viable. The first machines should be ready
> >| to put into the hands of children in developing countries in October 2007.
> > `----
>
> >http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6908946.stm
>
> Yahoo! At last!
>
> By the way, it's interesting to note that all the FUD we've seen here
> about this project is the same FUD which has been spread everywhere,
> including even the FUD which refuses to accept that there is value to
> education.
>
> I think this will be the first of a new generation of
> ultra-low-power-consumption, ULPC, machines (tag trademarked by Mark
> Kent!) which will be worked on in strong competition from a range of
> hardware vendors.
>
> The need to get human-power and solar-power moving these things is very
> strong indeed, considering the problems with energy supplies.
>
> It's also probably the final death-knell for Windows, since there is no
> way that Windows will ever be either cost-effective enough, or have low
> enough power requirements to make it viable for such machines.
I think a Windows-based version of the ULPCOLPC ;) might be viable, if
the user operated it whilst pedalling a bicycle and wearing a windmill-
styled hat.
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