<![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, 100 laptop]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, 100 laptop]]> http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/100laptop http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/100laptop <![CDATA[HiVision to ship $98 MiniNote laptop in October]]> In the race to develop the first mass-producible laptop that costs less than $100 has apparently been won by Chinese company HiVision, which currently offers an adorable, pink, 7" MiniNote for $120 but plans to introduce a model in October that will retail for only $98. Like the Lemote laptop that radical open source guru Richard Stallman uses, it couldn't run Windows if you wanted it to. But it comes with a free installation of Xip, a Linux distribution from China, and runs Firefox. But then Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child project decided to go with Windows and with that decision alone the size and cost ballooned. Would be just the thing for running Google's new Chrome browser — that is, if the Chrome browser supported Linux.

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5045695&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[India refuses to give its children laptops]]> American MIT scientist Nicholas Negroponte's project to outfit every child with a $100 laptop ain't gonna cut it for India. The Indian Ministry of Education rejected plans to buy cheap laptops for Indian children.

India's per capita GDP is $3300. Fifty million of its billion people are online. But hey, can't blame Nicholas for not scoping out his intended market. He was too busy finding just the right shade of orange for his little toy.

India rejects One Laptop Per Child [The Register]

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