I kept dreaming of a new kind of laptop. I kept drawing it and doodling it.
It would be about the size of an A4 sheet of paper, have Wifi, run some kind of Linux and – crucially – have no hard drive. A Cambridge Z88, an Apple eMate for the internet age.
Turns out the One Laptop Per Child project are thinking along the same lines. The project aims to design and build cheap, robust laptops for the third world. $100 laptops. Not for me, of course, but for children who really need them.
There was some ballyhoo in the media a while ago that the project – whilst still not going commercial, not selling them in Europe or the US – would let you buy one if you bought one for the developing world. A brilliant idea. Buy 2, get 1.
It’s not quite clear from their web site if they’re really going to do this or not. I hope they do. I want one of these so much, it hurts.
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