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I saw that on Diggnation, it looks pretty cool. I hope they're not only sold to developing nations and such, though. It'd be nice if they released, say, a $150 version for consumers. Compare this to my $300 (+$100 of almost necessary peripherals) PDA, and it's pretty much a no-brainer.

Post 1

Thursday, November 17, 2005 - 2:00pm

I liked the headline a lot better on Reuters UK:

"Researchers unveil 58 pound laptop for schoolkids"

:-)

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2005-11-17T060930Z_01_MCC676291_RTRIDST_0_OUKIN-UK-TUNIS-LAPTOP.XML&archived=False

Post 2

Thursday, November 17, 2005 - 2:12pm

My child was crushed by your laptop, Kofi Annan.

Heee

(Edited by Marnee
on 11/17, 2:13pm)

Post 3

Thursday, November 17, 2005 - 3:22pm

Gotta be a typo. Must be 5.8 pounds... unless it's made of depleted uranium and can stop a tank round.

Post 4

Thursday, November 17, 2005 - 4:36pm

Hmmm - maybe for the kids in the Near East?

Post 5

Thursday, November 17, 2005 - 7:21pm

Aaron:

I almost put a similar headline but I was afraid people wouldn't get it. Apparently, I was on the right track :-)

I think the first article I read had the price in pesos, i mean aussie dollars, and it wasn't seeming all that cheap.

Post 6

Thursday, November 17, 2005 - 7:22pm

Philip Coates was not thinking like an agoraphile when he wrote: "Gotta be a typo. Must be 5.8 pounds... unless it's made of depleted uranium and can stop a tank round."

Not only is a pound not always 12 or 16 ounces, but a yen is not always an urge. (Capitalist philosophers are the millstone around the neck of capitalism.)

Mark -- scratch (a good pun, actually)
Philip would be trouble in Germany if anyone asked to borrow a few mice.
Frank - honest; also, my uncle
Heller -- someone who likes to party
Ringgit -- push the doorbell.
Kyatt -- loves Myichael
Rand -- Ayn
Won -- did not lose
Ruble -- impolite name for farmerl
Livre -- constellation before Skerbio
Dinero -- Actor Robert
Shekel -- chain with lock
Krone -- old woman

Post 7

Thursday, November 17, 2005 - 10:11pm

Okay. I get it now. Color me stupid...

Marotta, mark my words, if you had a yen to make me look dumb, you won that round. To be franc, I really took a pounding on this thread: I ruble the day I posted anything on this subject.

(One more monetary pun and it will surely be a kroner.)

--chastened phil

Post 8

Friday, November 18, 2005 - 7:31pm