Friday, November 18th 2005
$100 Dollar Notebook officially introduced
The $100 dollar notebook designed for third world countries, was introduced at the UN World Congress. The Notebook runs at 500MHz, using an AMD chip. It has 1GB of Flash memory to be able to save something and comes with an 8 inch display. it will have a battery which can be recharged by hand. One minute of manual charging yields about 10 minutes work time. Alright, you all have heard of the Notebook before. Here is one picture in real life:
To find out more about the notebook visit their Website.
Source:
Hartware.net (german)
11 Comments on $100 Dollar Notebook officially introduced
looks like crap but for 100 it may be worth it to some :)
This not efficient to even use.....and a six year old computer doesnt need manual charging....
I guess it would be interesting to see, a class of 20 kids, sitting in a wooden & clay classroom, and all of them cranking the charger for 5 minutes first, so they can use the notebook for 50 minutes.
but I really like this project. Been following it for a while...
cheers
DS