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The $75, 1-watt laptop
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| Turns out that it's better than that: the organisation is moving forward with
| its plans for the 'XO-2' – a laptop that will aim for an $75 (£42) price
| point.
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http://www.techradar.com/news/mobile-computing/laptops/the-75-one-watt-laptop-466385
Recent:
$98 Linux Laptop - The HiVision miniNote
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| HiVision CO., LTD makes one of the worlds cheapest Linux laptops at $98 using
| a new cheaper chipset, WiFi, 1GB flash storage, it runs Linux, 3 USB ports,
| Ethernet, SDHC card reader, audio in and out. Voice-chat, Skype, multi-tabbed
| Firefox browser support, Abiword for word processing.
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http://techvideoblog.com/ifa/98-linux-laptop-the-hivision-mininote/
$75 SODIMM-sized SBC runs Linux
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| India-based E-con Systems has announced a Marvell PXA270-based system on
| module (SOM) that sells for as little as $75. The SODIMM-sized eSOM270 comes
| pre-installed with Linux, includes 64MB or 128MB of RAM, and has a camera
| interface and a LCD controller, E-con says.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8998216179.html
Sic Transit Gloria Laptopi
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| OLPC should be philosophically pure about its own machines. Being a
| non-profit that leverages goodwill from a tremendous number of community
| volunteers for its success and whose core mission is one of social
| betterment, it has a great deal of social responsibility. It should not
| become a vehicle for creating economic incentives for a particular vendor. It
| should not believe the nonsense about Windows being a requirement for
| business after the children grow up. Windows is a requirement because enough
| people grew up with it, not the other way around. If OLPC made a billion
| people grow up with Linux, Linux would be just dandy for business. And OLPC
| shouldn’t make its sole OS one that cripples the very hardware that
| supposedly set the project’s laptops apart: released versions of Windows can
| neither make good use of the XO power management, nor its full mesh or
| advanced display capabilities.
|
| [...]
|
| Nicholas knows quite well that Sugar won’t magically become better simply by
| virtue of running on Windows rather than Linux. In reality, Nicholas wants to
| ship plain XP desktops. He’s told me so. That he might possibly fund a Sugar
| effort to the side and pay lip service to the notion of its “availability” as
| an option to purchasing countries is at best a tepid effort to avert a PR
| disaster.
|
| In fact, I quit when Nicholas told me — and not just me — that learning was
| never part of the mission. The mission was, in his mind, always getting as
| many laptops as possible out there…
|
| [...]
|
| Nicholas’ new OLPC is dropping those pesky education goals from the mission
| and turning itself into a 50-person nonprofit laptop manufacturer, competing
| with Lenovo, Dell, Apple, Asus, HP and Intel on their home turf, and by using
| the one strategy we know doesn’t work. But hey, I guess they’ll sell more
| laptops that way.
|
| [...]
|
| So here’s to open learning, to free software, to strength of personal
| conviction, and to having enough damn humility to remember that the goal is
| bringing learning to a billion children across the globe. The billion waiting
| for us to put our idiotic trifles aside, end our endless yapping, and get to
| it already.
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http://radian.org/notebook/sic-transit-gloria-laptopi
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