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Specs on the $100 Laptop Emerge
IEEE Spectrum has a good article bringing us up to date on some of the tech specs for the One Laptop Per Child prototype, the $100 (now $150) laptop designed by MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte for developing countries.
"Within the next 12 months, as many as 10 million laptop computers will be distributed to children in Argentina, Brazil, Libya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Rwanda, and Uruguay. Countless youngsters who live in remote villages, perhaps without electricity, who may not have access to clean water or health care, will suddenly have computing power pretty close to that of businesspeople and college students...."
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