Re: [9fans] A look at the OLPC environment

[Wes Kussmaul]

Dave Eckhardt wrote: i'm just amazed they think it's possible to have a laptop + 1200x900 display for less than $100. if it were *less* than $100, they'd be thrilled to sell you one for $100 and use the profit to make more machines for kids. Dave Eckhardt Here's a VideoNow player for less than $30 retail: http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=4012133#Features+%26+Specifications Take away Wal*Mart's margin and the fancy packaging and it would probably cost $15 fob factory. Nowhere near the quality of OLPC of course but if you put in a big enough order with a manufacturer of DVD players for a machine replacing the DVD drive with a keyboard, add ethernet and a couple of gigs of flash and you could sell OLPWC (Western Cheapo) for under a hundred dollars and make money on it. -- Wes Kussmaul CIO The Village Group 738 Main Street Waltham, MA 02451 781-647-7178 My uncle likes to say that the world’s biggest troubles started when the serpent said, “Try this fruit, and by the way if a bunch of people collectively calling themselves Arthur Andersen signs something it’s the same as if a person named Arthur Andersen signed it.” I don’t get the serpent and fruit part. Must be some Swiss mythology thing. He can be a bit obscure. P.K. Iggy _How I Like Fixed The Internet_ (Tales from the Great Infodepression of 2009 and the prosperity that followed)