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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. :)
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Jeff Kinz, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA.
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