Dell has already come up with a $99 computer and it has received an excellent review, especially about the speed of net surfing. Those of you who have actually used one of these machines, please tell us how good it is. And how can we get it into rural communities in the developing world? Any ideas? Arun

HI everyone fromp the pacific coast of the US and in france and India, and Bengladesh, and east africa..

what about a keyboard devanagari keyboard, and a tamil one ? talking about hardware,..

questions and comments welcome

francois

--- Jim Forster <forster@cisco.com> wrote:

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From: Jim Forster <forster@cisco.com> Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 12:08:06 -0800 Subject: Re: [GKD] $100 Laptop World-wide Education Initiative To: gkd@milhouse.edc.org

Dear Colleagues,

There's a lot be excited about Negroponte's $100 One Laptop per Child idea but we also need to think about some of the issues that present ...

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