Re: [school-discuss] $100.00 laptop

[Steelhead <bill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have designed such a beast, but the one limiting factor preventing the 
$100 mark is the cost of the LCD panel.  With a 1/2 vga color panel we 
achieved a cost to manufacture under $170us, full VGA added another $70 
dollars.  By comparison, a PDA or Pocket pc typically uses a 1/4 VGA panel.

The webpage is one i set up in 1999... http://www.edebook.com/ The 
concept is the same, but book prices have only gone up.

Lemmie know if you are interested enough in the concept to help pull it 
together.

Bill Ries-Knight
Stockton, Ca


Gerald Logan wrote:
> I just noticed an article on this as well.  It has me excited, and can't 
> wait to see what the prototype looks and works like.
> On Sep 28, 2005, at 5:33 PM, Gordon J. Holtslander wrote:
>
> > Came across these sites:
> >
> > haven't noticed this being discussed here.
> >
> > A $100.00 dollar laptop running linux - intended for education in the
> > developing world - and likely very practical for the developed world to.
> >
> > http://laptop.media.mit.edu/
> > http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1935&tag=nl.e589
> >
> > prototype to be released at  World Summit on the Information Society 
> > (WSIS)
> > http://www.itu.int/wsis/ in November.
> >
> > It looks like it is intended to support tablet style use (in addition 
> > to a
> > keyboard)- so one can use it without using a keyboard.  This opens many
> > avenues.
> >
> > Gord
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