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Tuesday Jun 06, 2006
The $130 PC
Nicholas Negroponte has unveiled protoypes of a machine (previously billed as the $100 PC) that will spread processing power to the developing world.
The ruggedized, two pound Linux desktop (Fedora) system, with mesh networking will sell for about $130 to $140 (san shipping) to governments starting in April 2007. Negroponte expects to reach the $100 price point by the end of 2008. The colorful system can turn into a tablet, and Negroponte said that it "will run like a bat out of hell." Pricing depends on how much RAM, but key is the display, he added. "It has to be sunlight readable. That won't be done until August/September."
I want one (not necessarily in orange).
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