MIT unveils $100 (U.S.) laptop

[jason]

This is something that I've been interested in and have been talking about for some time... thank god it is finally an option. Perhaps there are problems with it, but it is moving in the right direction. Thanks to Aaron Chan who was my student in ECE912 a couple of years ago for pointing this out to me

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1127902678881&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154&t=TS_Home&DPL=IvsNDS%2f7ChAX&tacodalogin=yes

Comments

[roger-kuin.livejournal.com]

It sounds interesting, if utopian. If they are thinking in millions, how soon will it be before Dell leapfrogs them with a for-profit $150 laptop?
What worries me more is that the speed of operating systems' and software's obsolescence will undo much of the value of those laptops. Because how can you keep that obsolescence out of those villages once the kids hook up the Net? If a kid gets the puter at age 8, by age 15 he will be 3-5 software generations behind. And his next laptop will cost $1,200. Moreover, he will have gotten a craving for X-Box, Nintendo and iPods.