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Syrius
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 Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 3:29 pm Post subject: The 35-dollar PC. |
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Probably we won't see this in the market sometime soon, and I am sure many companies will try their darnedest to block it (and I hope its quality is better than many of the "Ipods" and "Game Boys" I've seen made in Taiwan and HK), but this is awesome:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100723/ap_on_hi_te/as_india_supercheap_computer
It may not have the power of a Palm or a BlackBerry, but something that lets you access the web and write documents for that cheap has great potential. As long as it's not "disposable cheap".
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tijn
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For that kind of money... you need to produce huge masses of this thing.
I imagine it's getting pretty close to the material costs!
Still, it sounds interesting and might be possible because a small portion of India's billion people still is 'huge masses'... |
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Vallus
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| Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2010 8:01 am Post subject: Re: The 35-dollar PC. |
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| Syrius wrote: | Probably we won't see this in the market sometime soon, and I am sure many companies will try their darnedest to block it (and I hope its quality is better than many of the "Ipods" and "Game Boys" I've seen made in Taiwan and HK), but this is awesome:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100723/ap_on_hi_te/as_india_supercheap_computer
It may not have the power of a Palm or a BlackBerry, but something that lets you access the web and write documents for that cheap has great potential. As long as it's not "disposable cheap". |
I'm with you on the quality point. I've been burned before on cheap electronics that didn't perform as well as expected and/or broke easily. Most recently with a Wii remote. I didn't want to pay $40 for an official one from Nintendo so I went with a cheaper Nyko one. It works but it's really flaky at times which has led to some frustration. |
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