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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