Sub-$100 laptop design unveiled

[hyperD]

"The laptop will be tough and foldable in different ways, with a hand crank for when there is no power supply."

Well, there's a solution to the welfare problem already. It's a win-win situation...

hyperD in "buzzword bingo" mode.

[ratewhore]

Chuffin great idea. Harnessing the power of the net for kids in poverty stricken countries. Sub-$100 for the notebook, what about the rest of the infrastructure?

[Fleetwood1975]

Just what exactly is your average subsistence farmer in Ethiopia going to do with this bloody thing? Play solitaire while tending his goats?

Surely they would be better off spending their efforts in the search for better irrigation?

[Chico]

Just what exactly is your average subsistence farmer in Ethiopia going to do with this bloody thing? Play solitaire while tending his goats?

Surely they would be better off spending their efforts in the search for better irrigation?

.... ermm education or is that the sole preserve of goat farmers in the West?

[Fleetwood1975]

And how much more education could they get by not wasting their money on computers?

[Chico]

how much education would $100 buy? Compare that to a $100 laptop with access to the internet forever.

[hyperD]

Compare that to a $100 laptop with access to the internet forever.

And herein lies the naivety of our little gullible christian...

[Chico]

And herein lies the naivety of our little gullible christian...

As opposed to the cynical, selfish and downright nasty atheist that chirps in from time to time

[threaded]

Just what exactly is your average subsistence farmer in Ethiopia going to do with this bloody thing? Play solitaire while tending his goats?

Surely they would be better off spending their efforts in the search for better irrigation?

Actually Ethiopia has a fantastic irrigation system, mainly underground, parts of it thousands of years old. The civil war has caused immense damage.

[hyperD]

Compare that to a $100 laptop with access to the internet forever

If you post that type of sh1te response like "internet forever" then what do you expect? Are you really that naive that you think the introduction of a $100 laptop will make a blind bit of difference without the investment of infrastructure, let alone the concept of a laptop to these people?

I really think your gullible christian beliefs in "moving mountains" have just taken a step too far.

Christian...FFS, you admit and proclaim the most unchristian things I've ever known. If you want to do your cause some good then I suggest you remove all your fingers and staple your mouth closed. As much as you want to visit this board to "fight the wrong said about christiandom", I will do the same for stupidity, naivety, ideaology and arrogance.

And fyi "christian", I have never said nor written that I am an athiest.