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[News] Sub-$100 GNU/Linux PCs Still Target Africa

  • Subject: [News] Sub-$100 GNU/Linux PCs Still Target Africa
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 01:40:37 +0000
  • Followup-to: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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Cherrypal Offers Laptop for Under $100

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| Cherrypal on Tuesday announced a no-frills 
| laptop called Cherrypal Africa, which includes 
| hardware usually found in smartphones. It can 
| run the Linux or Windows CE operating systems, 
| which are also found on cell phones.
| 
| Priced at $99, the laptop is targeted at those 
| looking for an inexpensive PC to surf the 
| Internet, said Max Seybold, founder of 
| Cherrypal. It is a "no-thrills" laptop that 
| could find an audience in developing countries 
| and low-income groups in the Western world, he 
| said
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/184709/cherrypal_offers_laptop_for_under_100.html


Recent:

Cherrypal Offers Laptop for Under $100

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| PC maker Cherrypal has done something Nicholas
| Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child couldn't do:
| make a laptop that breaks the US$100 price
| barrier.
|
| Cherrypal on Tuesday announced a no-frills
| laptop called Cherrypal Africa, which includes
| hardware usually found in smartphones. It can
| run the Linux or Windows CE operating systems,
| which are also found on cell phones.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/184709/cherrypal_offers_laptop_for_under_100.html
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