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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> The £99 laptop: how can it be so cheap?
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>> | A new laptop computer for just £99 sounds like the kind of offer found
>> | in a spam e-mail or on a dodgy auction website. But the British company
>> | Elonex is launching the country?s first sub £100 computer later this
>> | month and hopes to be making 200,000 of them by the summer. It will be
>> | aimed at schoolchildren and teenagers, and looks set to throw the market
>> | for budget laptops wide open.
>> |
>> | Called the One, it can be used as a traditional notebook computer or,
>> | with the screen detached from the keyboard, as a portable ?tablet? ?
>> | albeit without the planned touchscreen that Elonex had to abandon to hit
>> | its £99 price tag. Wi-fi technology lets users access the internet or
>> | swap music (and homework) files between computers wirelessly.
>> |
>> | [...]
>> |
>> | The secret is simple: open-source software. The One runs on Linux, which
>> | is a rival to Windows but completely free to use. Open-source software
>> | can be freely swapped or modified by anyone who wants it. In the past
>> | such operating systems (there are several of them) have been outgunned
>> | by the more sophisticated Windows programs. However, an open-source
>> | operating system is ideal for low-cost devices as it performs well on
>> | less powerful, cheaper hardware.
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>> http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/personal_tech
> article3374812.ece
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> Thats unbelievably nice - they are only making 200,000 units.
> It will be like gold dust!
How much does Vista cost in the UK? You know, the DVD with all those bugs...
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