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Originally Posted by alex_d
I can't understand nor believe how they're selling a winxp machine for $200.
This is incredible. I hope the people behind the $100 (now $150) craptop per child project are bowing their heads in shame.
I think this thing must be using the new Intel system-on-a-chip, although I thought that wasn't coming out for a while. The 512 MB of ram is very adequate, especially since the swapfile will be stored on flash rather than hard drive! However, the size of the flash drive is a problem. 4GB is definately way too small. 8GB might be ok, i guess, but still limited. 16GB would be good, but then the device will surely cost a lot more than $200. In fact, I think the $200 model only has 2GB (it's mentioned by the inquirer). ouch.
Also, I too wish the 3 hours was more. It'd be nice if the battery life was more like a PDA's than a laptop's. The real question is how big's the charger!
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The 2 not 4 GB was answered.. It will have 4GB its going to run Linux varrent with a user shell of tabs, Open Office and Firefox... Would not inflect a power/resource hungry copy of windows XP or even that joke Vista. Maybe W2k but not those... Most are think of a copy of Ubuntu.
If you want to run... UGH windows... Would better to go with the VIA/FIC unit. For 600 it has a 30 or opt 60GB hard drive max 1GB memory and maybe a faster chip. Comes with Windows Vista O_O. If you scrape that off a copy of Linux should work out verry well.