From: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] A look at the OLPC environment
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 17:14:11 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44933B43.6050606@lanl.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44931646.8080506@village.com>
Wes Kussmaul wrote:
> 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.
I'm not convinced it's that easy. I've seen the components prices and it
sure looks hard to me to lower the price much. What's the target volume
of that dvd player?
ron
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-16 23:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-15 15:51 Ronald G Minnich
2006-06-15 18:33 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-06-15 20:03 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-06-15 20:34 ` rog
2006-06-15 20:38 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-06-15 20:41 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-06-15 21:35 ` Wes Kussmaul
2006-06-16 20:18 ` Dave Eckhardt
2006-06-16 20:22 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2006-06-17 19:55 ` Dave Eckhardt
2006-06-17 20:56 ` Jack Johnson
2006-06-16 20:36 ` Wes Kussmaul
2006-06-16 23:14 ` Ronald G Minnich [this message]
2006-06-17 17:41 ` Wes Kussmaul
2006-06-18 1:32 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-06-17 19:53 ` Dave Eckhardt
2006-06-16 23:13 ` Ronald G Minnich
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