Comments on: OLPC can now run Windows increases price http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2007/04/30/olpc-can-now-run-windows-increases-price/ Top Technology news Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:40:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Gerry Morgan http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2007/04/30/olpc-can-now-run-windows-increases-price/comment-page-1/#comment-10071 Gerry Morgan Tue, 01 May 2007 17:46:18 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2007/04/30/olpc-can-now-run-windows-increases-price/#comment-10071 You might be interested in an opensource alternative put out by Ink Media. You might be interested in an opensource alternative put out by Ink Media.

]]> By: Jonathan Schlaffer http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2007/04/30/olpc-can-now-run-windows-increases-price/comment-page-1/#comment-10011 Jonathan Schlaffer Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:44:52 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2007/04/30/olpc-can-now-run-windows-increases-price/#comment-10011 Those are all valid points. You're right about the food and lodging, I don't have that answer but as far as internet access, if by some miracle one laptop can connect then the other laptops will be able to use the connected laptop as an access point provided it is in range. But, someone has to pay for it and I'm betting it won't be the government of any of those countries but some may bite. Those are all valid points. You’re right about the food and lodging, I don’t have that answer but as far as internet access, if by some miracle one laptop can connect then the other laptops will be able to use the connected laptop as an access point provided it is in range.

But, someone has to pay for it and I’m betting it won’t be the government of any of those countries but some may bite.

]]> By: gecko http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2007/04/30/olpc-can-now-run-windows-increases-price/comment-page-1/#comment-10008 gecko Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:48:34 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2007/04/30/olpc-can-now-run-windows-increases-price/#comment-10008 now instead of 1 laptop per child, it has become 1 laptop per 1.75 child. i simply don't get the idea of providing laptops to children of the third world when they still lack the basic needs - medicine, food, lodging... the money would be better used for something else, anyway, what use is a computer without internet? who is going to pay for their internet access? now instead of 1 laptop per child, it has become 1 laptop per 1.75 child. i simply don’t get the idea of providing laptops to children of the third world when they still lack the basic needs – medicine, food, lodging… the money would be better used for something else, anyway, what use is a computer without internet? who is going to pay for their internet access?

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