----- Original Message Follows ----- > Hi, > Sorry Don, but I tend to agree with Nick. > I also agree, for slightly different reasons.
1. It's morally reprehensible to introduce children to the horror of debt at a young age. At least leave them the innocence of youth for a little while longer. And profiting off children isn't for me. Leave that to the big nasty American Corporations. 2. Kids should be outside running into trees and keeping fit so they can fight off the various illnesses they'll get. Not turning into couch potatoes. 3. Laptops are limited in what fun stuff a kid can do with it. If I had to get a kid something to play with, I'd sooner get them an electronics kitset, a chemistry set or Lego. Let them be more constructive with their brains. 4. There is no fourth thing. 5. If all these kids start buying laptops off Trademe, it'll push the prices up so the kids just end up getting even deeper in debt. 6. Laptops-for-kids schemes in the US are failing the children and proving to be ineffective learning tools. It just seems to be a winner for hardware vendors. Jonathan
