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Quote Psychotic_Carp Replybullet Topic: MIT Released the $100 laptop
    Posted: 24 May 2006 at 8:28am
I cant get to the site yet (getting slammed)
http://www.pledgebank.com/100laptop

here are some pictures

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pete/sets/72057594143224765/

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a working link

http://www.laptop.org/index.en_US.html

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Quote inkspot Replybullet Posted: 24 May 2006 at 8:32am
Looks crapy.
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Quote Psychotic_Carp Replybullet Posted: 24 May 2006 at 8:33am
Originally posted by inkspot

Looks crapy.


join the fugly club

http://viewaskew.com/theboard/viewtopic.php?p=1569098#156909 8
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Quote inkspot Replybullet Posted: 24 May 2006 at 8:42am
But then again, if this would go into education level. Like, school lends every pupil that laptop, you would save tons of paper, that means forests will be saved.
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Quote Souly Replybullet Posted: 24 May 2006 at 8:50am
And isn't most of the money that is made is given to charity?
So it's a double win.

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Quote Psychotic_Carp Replybullet Posted: 24 May 2006 at 4:24pm
Im wondering how many of them will use it for useful things like learning and not for porn.
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Quote inkspot Replybullet Posted: 25 May 2006 at 6:19am
I think this laptop is too crapy for quality porn.
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Quote Skull Replybullet Posted: 25 May 2006 at 6:23am
Ehh.... I think I'll stick to my computer. 
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Quote Souly Replybullet Posted: 25 May 2006 at 6:56am
They're not for retail sale.

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Quote PixelSnader Replybullet Posted: 25 May 2006 at 6:59am

''built in wireless'' goddamnit.. do they have that much reach in africa? i mean.. to get every mile covered you'd need like a bajillion antennas.

plus. they'd download soldat, or some other game, and get addicted

 

is there some place to get its specs? (barrey last after a minute uf winding, hd space, videocard, etc)  ??

edit: i meant ''battery last, after a minute of winding up the thing'' yay  for sleepy  typos



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Quote Larwick Replybullet Posted: 25 May 2006 at 7:15am

I swear wind up things are reeeaaly expensive. I mean, obviously not as expensive as making a nuclear power plant but... normal torches are like, £10, and wind up ones are almost £70. Although i spose what it gains in price from windupping power it loses from with orange plastic! Yeyz!

Looks like a good idea.

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Quote Psychotic_Carp Replybullet Posted: 25 May 2006 at 6:24pm
Originally posted by snader

''built in wireless'' goddamnit.. do they have that much reach in africa? i mean.. to get every mile covered you'd need like a bajillion antennas.


plus. they'd download soldat, or some other game, and get addicted


 


is there some place to get its specs? (barrey last after a minute uf winding, hd space, videocard, etc)  ??


edit: i meant ''battery last, after a minute of winding up the thing'' yay  for sleepy  typos



The network will be ad-hoc

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adhoc

There is no hard drive, its not made for gaming its made for them to be bale to access the world

someone needs to read the FAQ


What is the $100 Laptop, really?
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 3× the 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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Quote Blick Replybullet Posted: 25 May 2006 at 6:46pm
It's made solely for minimal educational use in developing countries. It's impressive really. I love the incorporation of a hand crank/battery pack thing in the original prototype models and I'm not sure if they kept that feature (I'm sure they have them seperate, but in the original concepts they were the same unit that slid into the joint connecting the screen and keyboard), but I thought it was clever.
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