$10 Laptop from India

[excited]

Found this like the sound of it.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9716044-7.html

daz

[martin]

doing a bit of "sideways thinking", you could say they're here already - for MOST purposes an "old" computer has more than sufficient "fire power", it's just that the Windoze bloatware treadmill has encouraged the early junking of perfectly good equipment, AGES before the end of it's days - strip out the bloatware, install a user-friendly version of Linux (like Ubuntu), and carry on boogying at high speed on "outdated" hardware..... (I am!)

[RichardKB]

Not more landfill fodder  .

Rich

[petertc]

I have 2 old laptop's that the kids use
1 each.
an old ibm with 128 meg ram and a p233 processor running xubuntu
and an old hp laptop that i bought from work for £50 that just kept crashing when running XP. its a bit more powerful than the ibm as it has 256 meg of ram and a celeron chip , This is also running xubuntu

both of these have Gcompris for the kids and also other kid's stuff on them

Peter