I have a Dell Latitude - but I don't recall it only costing $200 :rock:
Quote (Juanito @ Nov. 14 2007,12:34)
I have a Dell Latitude - but I don't recall it only costing $200 :rock:
ebay, Craigs List . I've got 3 of them. With Vista, I expect to see a lot of great laptops getting dumped. Looks like OLPC idea is history:
1. $100 price is now $188 plus shipping 2. Poor countries want better (and latest) machines with Windows OS
"The Intel machine is a lot better than the OLPC," says Mohamed Bani, who chairs Libya's technical advisory committee but doesn't have the final say on buying laptops. "I don't want my country to be a junkyard for these machines."
3. Intel and Microsoft are competing, offering better machines with $3 software packages.
"The higher price also has made the laptop vulnerable to competition from sellers of more traditional, Windows-based machines. For many education ministries, "it's a no-brainer you go with Microsoft," says Mr. Davies."
4. OLPC offers little or no maintenance support
"Mr. Negroponte said some initial tech support would be provided by Brightstar Corp., a Miami-based wireless equipment distributor. Just who would provide support a few years from now, he said, was "a frightening question." The students, he said, will need "to do as much maintenance as possible." "
Article referenced in todays WSJ "A Little Laptop With Big Ambitions"
Looks like inexpensive computers with faster. more efficient Linux OS will remain in the hands of more wealthy, technically sophisticated folks.these is the result of a big market operation (idea of AOL and Banco de Santander)...(is in spanish but you can see the price..)
http://www.cospa.es/Intel%20Dot%20Station%202300/Default.htm (cospa is a cooperative for school material that are sold the pcs,with others , of the faillure operation AOL Banco de Santander) its supoused that about 150.000 pcs that were not sold, the idea was to make a sigle pc , intel core and linux, for people that begin in internet, the original cost was about 630 euros the same that a normal pc in 2002-2003 ...total faillure of busines , the persons that no have idea in pcs do no buy pcs..
I think that big ideas have to begin with small damn projects.. with the people of poor countries ...can be dsl.org to pass a dsl.ngo ? can the people of dsl help direct to advise in TICs to poor countries
the priorities of poor countries are the food , the water and the vaccines... 188 $ is the money to eat 188 days one person...
