Laptop for $100. Its a global effort.
AMD, Brightstar, Google, News Corporation, and Red Hat are backing the effort, and Brazil is likely to be a manufacturing center for the notebooks.
OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) is a non-profit venture that is going to distribute 100 to 200 millions laptop in 2007.
They are targeting poor children.
So Question is HOW can you make and sell a laptop for $100?
Well turns out that they will be using $30 LCD that are found in inexpensive DVD players; it can use in bright sunlight and it goes up to 4 times the resolution.
It will be run in Linux - free operating system. Built in Wi-Fi, 500mhz, and 1GB of storage.
Being poor doesn't have to mean being disconnected.
If you ask me, I want one and I would probably just upgrade it.
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