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Jeff Kinz jkinz at kinz.org
Wed Mar 8 11:05:01 EST 2006


On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 10:15:17AM -0500, Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 09:43:51AM -0500, Jeff Kinz wrote:
> > Now all we need are $10 laptops for general distribution.  :)
> 
> Not quite there yet, but getting closer:
> 
> http://laptop.media.mit.edu/

Yes, that was my point.  A few years ago laptops were $2k- $5K.

Today you can get a really good laptop for $100 **

Negroponte's project is knocking a zero off that average.

So in a few years we can knock a another zero off the price.

(By then $100 will be equal to today's $10. :-))



** Yeah, I know, the $100 laptop will not be anything like what 
a $1K laptop.  I just enjoy the speculation and discussion. :)


-- 
Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA.
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