$100 Laptop?

[dgridley]

Are these pics of a $100 laptop prototype?

http://cn.engadget.com/2005/12/25/cn-engadget-com-100-usd-laptop-roudup/

 

[Flubber]

Woah, need a chinese translator now :D

Looks cool, could take one of those to school happily :tu:

Ta-ra.

Flubber

 

[Morph]

I think this : ???? ???????? ?????? 100 ???? ????????????

Awsome ???? ?????? 100

Lol you have to wind it up hehehe

 

[Ben]

Yes.

http://laptop.media.mit.edu/

 

[dgridley]

Looks like it.. hopefully the need to "wind it" is optional... pretty cool concept tho!

Lol you have to wind it up hehehe

 

[Morph]

Winding and browsing winding and browsing

 

[dgridley]

Thanks.. I knew it was an MIT sposored project.. just couldn't find an english link!

The proposed $100 machine will be a Linux-based, with a dual-mode display—both a full-color, transmissive DVD mode, and a second display option that is black and white reflective and sunlight-readable at 3X the resolution. The laptop will have a 500MHz processor and 128MB of DRAM, with 500MB of Flash memory; it will not have a hard disk, but it will have four USB ports. The laptops will have wireless broadband that, among other things, allows them to work as a mesh network; each laptop will be able to talk to its nearest neighbors, creating an ad hoc, local area network. The laptops will use innovative power (including wind-up) and will be able to do most everything except store huge amounts of data.

Yes.

http://laptop.media.mit.edu/

 

[zaros64]

then how will u store things?
with the flash memory? LOL... i would get like 40gb flash memory or something

 

[dgridley]

4 USB ports for external storage media...

then how will u store things?
with the flash memory? LOL... i would get like 40gb flash memory or something

 

[Humdizzy]

Too bad they aren't for sale.

 

[Reppy]

Innovative and dare I say it... cute!

 

[dgridley]

wow.. I didn't even have to double dare you! Hey, wish I had one of those.. I'd even pay TWO hundred dollars for one..

I think the main advantage here tho is we may eventually see this sort of innovation trickle down to the mainstream.

Innovative and dare I say it... cute!

 

[matrics]

Hey, what's with the crank? Looks like a flatscreen Slot Machine that way...

 

[Darkness]

Omg. 100# is cheap. D:

 

[dgridley]

The crank, believe it or not, is an alternate power source.

Hey, what's with the crank? Looks like a flatscreen Slot Machine that way...

 

[Jakey]

damn I want one of those!

 

[Darkness]

Me too!
*Steals one* lol

 

[Mike_Wiseman]

Nope those are out now, i seen it on tv on the discovery channel (Daily Planet)

 

[gchick]

whoa....that's a pretty cheap laptop. looks decent too...

 

[OttoYiu]

Wow. Next generation of laptops for sure!