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$73 netbook shows up in China

You know how excited people get when you talk about $100 laptops? Well, how about a $73 notebook computer, although I’m using the word computer generously here. Shenzhen, China based PC maker Sungworld is putting out a clamshell-style device with a 7 inch, 800 x 480 pixel display and a $73 price tag. Of course, for that price you shouldn’t…

October 12th, 2009, 10:03 am by Brad Linder | 13 Comments

DMP Edubook: Another shot at the mythical $100 netbook

Remember when we used to call the OLPC XO Laptop the $100 laptop? OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte overpromised and underdelivered when it came to price and the XO now costs closer to $200. That’s still pretty impressive, all things considered, and the XO really did launch the netbook revolution. But the price never dropped to the promised $100 level, and…

October 7th, 2009, 8:44 am by Brad Linder | 7 Comments

Gartner: We won’t see $100 laptops for 3 more years

It’s been a while since anyone referred to the OLPC XO Laptop as the $100 laptop. You know, unless they were joking. But once upon a time, that was Nicholas Negroponte’s dream: to produce a notebook for under $100. Now, the OLPC project never planned to make a profit off of these notebooks, but a lot of folks swooned at…

July 29th, 2008, 12:43 pm by Brad Linder | 3 Comments