____/ Mark Kent on Thursday 03 January 2008 15:23 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> OLPG, or One Laptop Per Grown-up
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>>| I'd call it a One Laptop Per (for) Grown-ups. I believe that such laptop
>>| would be appealing to a lot of people who need a simple computing device
>>| (journalists for example, or writers, or business people who need simple
>>| computer on the road to check their email, check web sites and write
>>| documents). It would be great for bloggers (say, something similar to Asus
>>| eeePC 701 but with bigger screen and better keyboard). I believe that all
>>| this possible, and even more so after the CTO of the project just resigned
>>| to start a commercial entity based on technology created for OLPC.
>> `----
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>> http://www.thetechandcents.com/2008/01/olpg-or-one-laptop-per-grown-up.html
>
> There is an enormous "suppressed" market here, just waiting for
> affordable technology.
There's also an industry that dreads the idea of cheap computers where hardware
and softare have minimal requirement. Just watch how Intel and
Microsoft 'raped' OLPC like manmen and how they grouped together like a pack
of hyenas.
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~~ Best of wishes
"Fat operating systems spend most of their energy supporting their own fat."
--Nicholas Negroponte, MIT Media Lab, rediff.com, Apr 2006
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