Wednesday | November 30, 2005

CPU Power To The People

I found an article about a $100 laptop in development at MIT that will run Red Hat Linux. I guess it will be a way for third world children and others to move into the computer age one person at a time. The article also indicates the laptop will be available for retail sale to others for about $200 dollars. What impact it will have on the world is unclear to me as you'll need more than a laptop to move into the computer age (isp, access point to isp, printers, etc...), but it is a starting point. The article can be found at TECTONIC: MIT $100 laptop to run Redhat.
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1 - Actually, to be honest, more and more towns and cities are trying to become "wireless". So, technically all you would need is a laptop with a wireless card and you could have the world at your fingertips in one of these places. How cool is that.

On a side note, I'm partly against cities and towns doing this because it just gets government more involved in our lives than it needs to be. That being said, it's nice to have that option if I ever end up on the street with just my laptop and the clothes on my back! (Comment this)

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