[SGVLUG] Today's news brings a wide grin

[Michael Proctor-Smith]

On 7/25/07, Dustin Laurence <dustin at laurences.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 03:54:05PM -0700, Miguel Hernandez wrote:
> >
> >    But  they're  still  costing roughly $175 to make? I've been following
> >    this  project since last Feb. & I recall reading that once they got to
> >    this milestone in orders, it was actually going to cost closer to $100
> >    per  laptop  (which would mean more kids w/laptops).
>
> I believe for a long time they have said that the first ones would cost
> more--$100 was an ambitious goal that would require a lot of time to
> achieve enough volume.  They may have initially hoped to hit $100 with
> the first batch, but I think that turned out to be impossible.

As Dustin said it is all about volume to get to the $100 price but
http://www.medisoncelebrity.com/ is a $150 dollar laptop running linux
that is available to the public now, or at least in 4-6 weeks from
order.