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Asustek: $200 Eee PC coming in 2009
- Andys 18y agoThe logical consequence of the fact that PCs keep getting faster even though a PC from 2005 did everything most people need (word processing, email, web, chat). And Microsoft didn't see it coming, apparently.
- jonknee 18y agoWe'll get the $100 laptop and it won't come from OLPC. Profit makes the world go 'round.
- jumper 18y agoMaybe not.... inflation alone could make that psychologically important 100$ mark impossible to reach if they don't get to it soon.
- jackchristopher 18y agoNicholas Negroponte did a great presentation at MIT recently. He said that the OLPC still costs ~170 to manufacture; Inflation of the dollar killed their pricing forecasts. But these netbooks are for a different market.
- weegee 18y agoBought my nephew (13) the eepc 900 in August, in late September it failed suddenly, they're sending it back under warranty. Hope it works better when it comes back...it's a nice little computer though.
- jrockway 18y agoAn electronic device failed?! That never happens! You are surely the first person to ever experience this! Sorry, what I meant to say was: What does this have to do with the article?