New Cheap Laptops under $100, MIT Prototype

This is a great thing, aside from developing nations, our American Poor sorely needs this as well.

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-ADHDsux4me

Well I just read the article and if they pull it off it's just amazing and I love the hand crank part, I don't know how many starving cambodians it takes to turn it, but it's certainly interesting.

Linux makes anything possible

Spiderj

Not surprised they run on Linux! Hard for people to grasp, at first, but a laptop for under 100 bucks is a great achievement - I only wonder how it will hold up over time.

Hand crank is pure genius.

I would think the hard rubber frame is going to hold up better than most in jungle areas.

Spiderj

I've heard of this a while ago, good to see it finally reach fruition well almost heh. Back when I first heard of the project they had allot of grand designs of imbedding high efficiency solar panels into the shell of the laptop, I see they have not done that and it's a shame. They should offer more deluxe "Village" models that are more powerfull and have more robust recharging features. eInk screens as well as regenerative typing(eg Piezoelectricity just a trickle but to certain low power computing operations a trickle can be a torrent... perspective ) would be great idea's. I guess as all the required technologies come down in price it will trickle into the 100$ computer and the 100$ comp will become the 10$ comp lol.

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