A $100 Laptop? Yes – coming soon to a child to an underdeveloped nation soon!
You can see a picture of one of those “$100 laptops” but don’t expect to buy one.
The International Organization “One Laptop Per Child” DOES plan to get the price down to $100 or so through mass production, but they probably won’t be available at Wal Mart they say. Instead they’re planning to distribute the machine through massive government give away programs in underdeveloped nations.
The machine itself is cool and can even be powered by a hand cranked attached generator!
Instead of using “folders” for storing data or projects, the computers use a journalling system that logs every activity so by scrolling through the journal you can find and continue working on any particular item. It should be able to do almost anything that more expensive laptops can do.
At this price, the laptop would revolutionize microbusiness too.
And I wouldn’t be suprised if it came to Wal Mart one day too…
The proposed $100 machine will be a Linux-based, with a dual-mode display;both a full-color, transmissive DVD mode, and a second display option that is black and white reflective and sunlight-readable at 3x resolution. The laptop will have a 500MHz processor and 128MB of DRAM, with 500MB of Flash memory; it will not have a hard disk, but it will have four USB ports. The laptops will have wireless broadband that, among other things, allows them to work as a mesh network; each laptop will be able to talk to its nearest neighbors, creating an ad hoc, local area network. The laptops will use innovative power (including wind-up) and will be able to do most everything except store huge amounts of data.
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