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Story: '$100 laptops' here by next year
Posted by: Vincent Price (Tuesday 29 November 2005, 8:56 AM)
This is a fantastic idea. I find it somewhat humorous that the nay-sayers posting comments here are surely all doing so with a computer. So it's useful to you but would not be to a poor kid? Everyone in the world should at least have access to Google, for example. How many times have you been able to find information on a subject, and quickly? I encourage those who think this is a bad idea to read some more on the subject. And another thing- surely your multi-hundred dollar computer has spell-check. Please use it. Not talking to ESL peeps. Native English speakers, though, come on now. I mean really.
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Story: '$100 laptops' here by next year
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Can I buy one? Nick Stevens -
A ccomment to the talk about parallel market.
If t... Christian Winther
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This is a fantastic idea. I find it somewhat... Vincent Price -
We Indians REALLY need a product like this as our... Sudhir Banerjee
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So instead of actually helping these poor people b... Steven Bell
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Why not sell them in the west as well on a BOGOF o... Andrew Meredith
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Laptops???
Why do they need laptops? So corporatio... Matt Cooper
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A typically idealistic missed opportunity. Do good... Brian Catt
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Not only will the colour carry a message of playfu... Anonymous
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Great. People who can barely live need technology... Ed Da Silva
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