Re: [DDN] $165 laptop

2007-05-14 Thread arthur richards
$100 laptops is a business strategy dressed as charity and help. Having said this, suppose 200 million young (for example, african) children buy each a $100 dollar laptop, where is this $20 billion dollars going to come from and where is it going to? The so-called $100 dollar laptop

Re: [DDN] $165 laptop

2007-05-11 Thread Pamela McLean
Dear Claude I just read your email - belatedly - while trawling through messages that came while I was away. I thought it was interesting both to me and and also to members of learningfromeachother. We have recently been discussing issues around the $100 laptop there. I wondered about

[DDN] $165 laptop

2007-03-25 Thread Claude Almansi
Hi All I got a new laptop at CHF 200.- ( $165) yesterday - well, new in the sense of another. Second-hand actually, a Digital HiNote ultra 2000 (1). Sure, the model has been around for almost a decade, I won't go cavorting around Second Life or super-special-beta-testing any secret