$100 laptop running Linux

[Steven Danz]

Leo Mauler wrote:

>I have a PII-300Mhz I purchased for about $240 six
>months ago.  The 500Mhz laptops at HyperTech computers
> (87th & Farley) are right between $300-$400.
>
>300Mhz is decent enough for most things, not very good
>for video (VideoCD-quality MPEG1 videos run fairly
>well) but it will let me do basic graphics editing and
>browse on the Internet without painful
>"chuggachuggachugga" waits for the swap.
>
>Heh, wonder if there could be a system for buying
>those $100 laptops from Third World Countries which
>resembles the mail-order Canadian prescription drug
>programs. 
>  
>
It seems like there should be.  While I applaud efforts like the MIT
group working on building new $100 laptops ( http://laptop.media.mit.edu/ ),
it would be nice to have a place to send things that corporations
consider 'too slow to maintain productivity', whatever that is.

>--- djgoku <djgoku at gmail.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>On Apr 7, 2005 10:18 AM, Leo Mauler
>><webgiant at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>Now all I need is a few of those available here...
>>>      
>>>
>> :(
>>    
>>
>>>I have a $60 laptop running Linux but I doubt
>>>      
>>>
>>those
>>    
>>
>>>$100 machines in Third World Countries are as
>>>      
>>>
>>low-end
>>    
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>>>as P90 laptops with 16MB RAM.
>>>      
>>>
>>I have a P75 w/ 8MB RAM card, with OBSD, the card
>>looks similar to a
>>pcmcia card but is for ram =). Runs kinda sllow =),
>>I wish you could
>>find a >500Mhz for $100.
>>    
>>
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