[WSIS CS-Plenary] Now, the $75 laptop

[Tapani Tarvainen]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 06:15:19PM +0200, Rui Correia (correia.rui at gmail.com) wrote:

> After the $100 computer/ laptop (which ended up costing a bit more) now we
> have the $75 laptop.
> 
> http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/computing/2008/0801111001.asp?S=Reuters&A=REU&O=ql

That link only shows the title here at the moment,
"Cheap laptop tech goes commercial",
and that is a bit misleading, I think:
Negroponte's project is not going commercial,
just one of it's developers, Mary Lou Jepsen, 
has left off to found her own company.

Anyway, we certainly don't "now have" a $75 laptop
any more than we "had" $100 laptop three years ago:
it's just marketing hype at this point.
Only time will tell what will come of it.

But, here're a few more links for those interested in this:

http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN1019897920080110
(what the above probably was referring to)

http://www.joeinc.tv/
(Epsen's own original announcement of the new company)

http://www.pixelqi.com/  
(the new company's own website)

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080107182525297
(long interview of Jepsen)

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,141230-c,notebooks/article.html
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/10/1827223

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Tapani Tarvainen