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    100 $ laptop to roll-off assembly line
    « on: October 29, 2006, 04:25:52 AM »
    [highlight]Ask your brother to go kick-start the "laptop". I kinda like the last sentence in this article about- "where is the hardrive"   :o[/highlight]

    The laptop PC at the heart of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative aimed at schoolchildren in developing countries will start rolling off production lines in the second quarter of next year.
    Taiwan’s Quanta Computer, the largest contract notebook PC manufacturer in the world, was tapped by the OLPC project to produce the low-cost devices, and says it’s gearing up to play its part.

    OLPC Concept Photo
    Although the final numbers will depend on how many orders come in for the “$100 laptop,” Quanta expects to produce 10 million of the devices in the first year of production, a company representative said Monday.
    The OLPC group, led by Nicholas Negroponte, chairman of OLPC and a cofounder of the MIT Media Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, plans to offer the low-cost laptops to governments and organizations around the world as an educational tool to ensure schoolchildren in poor nations keep up in the digital age. A number of academic and industry groups worked together on the project to come up with the $100 laptop design.

    An improvement to inexpensive liquid crystal display (LCD) technology was key to pushing the cost of the laptop so low, according to the OLPC website. OLPC improved LCDs commonly found on inexpensive DVD players, resulting in a laptop screen costing $35. Normally, such screens make up hundreds of dollars of the cost of a notebook PC.

    OLPC also reduced the amount of software in the laptops, cutting the fat out of the system. "Today’s laptops have become obese. Two-thirds of their software is used to manage the other third, which mostly does the same functions nine different ways," the OLPC website says.

    In addition, the group believes that mass producing the laptops in very large numbers will keep costs down. The group had said it would not begin production until 5 million to 10 million of the laptop PCs had been paid for in advance.

    The machine will run the Linux OS on a 500MHz microprocessor from Advanced Micro Devices, will be wireless broadband-ready, and contain 128MB of DRAM and 500MB of flash memory for storage. The only major component missing will be a big hard disk, according to the group.
    [highlight][ link with pic of this ummm, laptop][/highlight]

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    Re: 100 $ laptop to roll-off assembly line
    « Reply #1 on: October 29, 2006, 05:37:46 AM »
    One of the things missing will be ANY hard drive. I like the crank on the side, though.  ::)
    « Last Edit: October 29, 2006, 05:38:03 AM by GX1_Man »

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    Re: 100 $ laptop to roll-off assembly line
    « Reply #2 on: October 29, 2006, 07:11:07 AM »
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    One of the things missing will be ANY hard drive. I like the crank on the side, though.  ::)

    Wonder if it has a pull rope like a lawnmower?

    I read a good bit of the article and the links.

    Seems Uncle Billy don't like it. ;D

    All I get out of it is the old "See and Say" toys.





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    « Last Edit: October 29, 2006, 07:25:44 AM by street1 »
    Sorry,The USA has ruined the language The United Kingdom loaned us. We do our best not to type gibberish. I Hope you can forgive us.

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    Re: 100 $ laptop to roll-off assembly line
    « Reply #3 on: October 29, 2006, 07:31:27 AM »
    Uncle Billy doesn't like it because he can't sell a license for Windows. If he made $20 a pop he would LOVE it.

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    Re: 100 $ laptop to roll-off assembly line
    « Reply #4 on: October 29, 2006, 04:25:52 PM »
    I think its a good idea.

    Although I don't quite understand the group they're trying to reach; The starving kids in Africa or the homeless criminals in America?

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      Re: 100 $ laptop to roll-off assembly line
      « Reply #5 on: October 29, 2006, 06:38:03 PM »
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      One of the things missing will be ANY hard drive. I like the crank on the side, though.  ::)

      Wonder if it has a pull rope like a lawnmower?

      I read a good bit of the article and the links.

      Seems Uncle Billy don't like it. ;D

      All I get out of it is the old "See and Say" toys.





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      [highlight]ABSOLUTELY  ROFLMFAO  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![/highlight]    :D

      "FOR ME"  <<  I think street 1's  post was the funniest I've seen here, I haven't seen that *censored* toy since my kids were like babies  lmao
      "freakin farmer says lol ,,   lmao   ;D
      « Last Edit: October 29, 2006, 06:41:08 PM by honvetops »
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