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The $75 Future Computer

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Posted on 12/24/2009 13:39 EST
Filed in: Cheap Computers, Computers, Laptops

The future, in terms of the PC computer world, is almost here. A radical new laptop, still in the design phase, is aimed at children in the developing world. But according to Forbes, this super-cheap product would pave the way for more affordable and accessible PCs than any we've seen to date.

"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..."

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