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The $75 Future Computer

Andy Greenberg, 12.22.09, 02:00 PM EST

Designer Yves Behar shares images and details from One Laptop Per Child's flashy PC plans.

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In Pictures: The $75 Future Computer


Take a look at the designs for what could someday be the world's cheapest PC, and you may start to wish you were a third-grade child in Burundi.

One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte's non-profit effort aimed at putting cheap educational laptops into the hands of developing world schoolchildren, is working on an upgrade to its so-called XO computer, once known as the "hundred-dollar laptop."

That revamped machine, known as the XO-3 and targeted for release in 2012, is still more of a pipe dream than a product. But early designs for the PC reveal a minimalist slate of touch-powered electronics that drops practically every feature of a traditional computer except its 8.5-by-11-inch screen, a scheme that would shed all of the first XO's child-like clunkiness without losing its simple accessibility.

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I would not want it. They consistantly ignore a segment of the population who do not buy their products for a simple reason - they are too small to see.

I will never buy a blackberry, ect (if I had the money) simply because I cannot see those tiny letters.

My kids bought me a much needed laptop, and paid less than these tiny netbooks sell for. I get the concept of "small enough to carry around", but still, to small.

One company did try with the cell phone, ladybug I think it was called. Big letters, easier to manage. But, the cost was way too high and the service was bad.

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