Re: [9fans] A look at the OLPC environment

[Wes Kussmaul <wes@village.com>]

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Dave Eckhardt wrote:

>>i'm just amazed they think it's possible to have a
>>laptop + 1200x900 display for less than $100.
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>if it were *less* than $100, they'd be
>thrilled to sell you one for $100 and use the profit to
>make more machines for kids.
>
>Dave Eckhardt
>  
>
Here's a VideoNow player for less than $30 retail:
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=4012133#Features+%26+Specifications

Take away Wal*Mart's margin and the fancy packaging and it would 
probably cost $15 fob factory.

Nowhere near the quality of OLPC of course but if you put in a big 
enough order with a manufacturer of DVD players for a machine replacing 
the DVD drive with a keyboard, add ethernet and a couple of gigs of 
flash and you could sell OLPWC (Western Cheapo) for under a hundred 
dollars and make money on it.

-- 
Wes Kussmaul
CIO
The Village Group
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Waltham, MA 02451

781-647-7178


My uncle likes to say that the world's biggest troubles started when the serpent said, "Try this fruit, and by the way if a bunch of people collectively calling themselves Arthur Andersen signs something it's the same as if a person named Arthur Andersen signed it." I don't get the serpent and fruit part. Must be some Swiss mythology thing. He can be a bit obscure. 

                         P.K. Iggy
                         _How I Like Fixed The Internet_
                           (Tales from the Great Infodepression of 2009
                           and the prosperity that followed)



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