[LAU] [OT] OLPC2OLPOTH 100$pc also for over-the-hills plz

[Ken Restivo]

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On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 02:44:00PM -0400, Rob wrote:
> On Saturday 28 July 2007, <> wrote:
> > the ASUS EEE is supposd to retail for 199 USD or so. there was a
> > 200 euro laptop on slashdot the other day. so is the lowest DELL
> > with a discount or two - theyre saying the OLPC will cost this much
> > anyways - theres no way they can really beat quanta/compal/asus at
> > their own game, price-wise.. although perhaps they have an edge in
> > software innovation (the EEE runs a trimmed down Linux)
> 
> Yeah, the OLPC currently costs $175 to make, whereas the Eee will 
> supposedly retail for $200.  (Whenever the OLPC is available here, 
> they're saying it'll be sold at double its material cost, minimum.)
> 
> I'm thinking of picking up an Eee for my mom for her birthday or xmas 
> (their old desktop machine is pretty much her husband's personal 
> Solitaire game), and if I do, you bet I'll be trying to get Jack 
> working on it.  Don't know how successful I'll be since it tragically 
> runs Xandros which last I heard didn't ship a lot of audio stuff 
> standard (and the Eee will be stripped down further still, to fit on 
> its little flash drive.)
> 

Nothing tragic about it. Wikipedia says it "optionally runs Ubuntu", so, I suppose it could run UbuntuStudio, or 64Studio, or Musix, or probably any other distro too.

- -ken
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