Digital World: Laptop bargains for all

[Rubber Duck]

In the market for a new laptop? Don't pull out your credit card just yet; if you wait just a wee bit longer, you might find yourself catching a real bargain!

How does $500 (NIS 2,000, give or take these days) sound for a fully loaded (well, probably almost) Dell laptop? Too much? Okay, how about $300 or so for a less fully loaded but Internet and word processing capable laptop that runs Windows? Still too much? Well, you could go for the $100 rival model - which will probably cost you $200 or so, since you are a resident of what is considered a non-third world country.

And then there's the $10 laptop. But you might have to learn Hindi in order to use it (I'm betting that at least some folks up there are up to the challenge, if that's what it takes to score such a bargain).....

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satelli...cle%2FShowFull

come out of India's new powerhouse hi-tech industries. The government of that country has invested millions in developing its own version of the educational laptop, and it's got the cost down to $47 per unit so far - although when massively produced, the price could sink to as low as $10 per computer

http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/node/4663