[clug-talk] US $100.00 Laptops

[Robert Lewko]

On October 4, 2005 07:19 pm, Cirez Communications, inc. wrote:
> Fellas,
> I am sure you all have heard about a project to mass-produce cheap
> laptop for the rest, I mean the third world. I am curious to know what
> will us linux geeks may cook up once it hits the market. Even on a
> 500MHz CPU, there is a enough power to run any linux apps--My
> workhorse is a P500 as well and I run all my servers [services] , plus
> my entertainment centre on it. If I can run apache+php on a WRT54G
> router, there is no tellin' what this puppy can do :-)
I at one time had a Toshiba 400MHz Celeron.  It was everything that I needed 
until it got stolen.  I just wonder if M$ is not shooting themselves in the 
foot.  I know of at least 3 businesses that have not upgraded to XP yet.  If 
it takes as much resources as I have heard then I know people that will look 
elsewhere.  The only good thing about this is that after about a year 
hardware will take a dive in price 'cause it will have to run vista 
preinstalled.