Taiwan Laptop Shipments Up 40 Pct. in 2Q
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| ...Quanta Computer, a major Taiwanese maker, is expected to ship more
| than 2.8 million laptops this year, benefiting from increased orders
| for Apple Computer's MacBook Pro installed with Intel's new Santa
| Rosa platform.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070630/taiwan_computer_exports.html?.v=1
300 laptops, but no power
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| "We have been browsing the internet and we are very happy", Juliet Onah,
| an excited primary six pupil, was quoted as saying.
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| But she said powering the laptop remained difficult as the school had
| no electricity and the supply at home was irregular.
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| The OLPC was founded by Nicholas Negroponte, an American professor, to
| provide laptops to all pupils at $100 by 2008, as a way of ensuring the
| penetration of information and communication technology in developing
| countries.
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http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/News/0,,2-11-1447_2138892,00.html
That's where the OLPC unit will in due time have an advantage that other units
do not have. The article does not bother to mention this.
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