$100 laptop running Linux

[Leo Mauler]

--- Steven Danz <steven-danz at kc.rr.com> wrote:
> 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.  

Of course, the NSA will be like the FDA and Canadian
mail-order drugs, and propagandize that terrorists are
planning to use mail-order $100 laptops to spread
viruses in America.  :(

> 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.

The sad part is that most of them have a place to send
them: E-Bay.  And there on E-Bay your $100 laptops,
which should be priced at $100, go to someone for
$300.

Oh well, off to install Gentoo on a P90 with 16 MB
RAM...fun city...  :)


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