We've already been at that point. No one really needs more than a 300Mhz for email, word processing, etc. The OLPC is 433Mhz and it's good enough for that. My g

We've already been at that point. No one really needs more than a 300Mhz for email, word processing, etc. The OLPC is 433Mhz and it's good enough for that. My god, you could use a 5Mhz computer to do spreadsheet stuff. A graphing calculator has more power than some of the older computers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Texas_Instruments_Graphing_Calculators http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Texas_Instruments... The whole software industry is really messed up when we're forcing people to upgrade to do the same things they've always been doing.