The Coming Wave

The folks over at OLPC got the ball rolling with their slated $100 laptop, now slipped up to near $200, but the concept is taking off. The new idea is to not cram all the features of a desktop into a laptop, but to make a communication gadget that works with the connected world. A lightweight notebook that targets the email, Internet, video, photo, tunes storage crowd. Functionality not MIPs and megapixels, low cost functionality at that.

So here comes ASUS and Intel with the latest ASUS sub $200 miniature notebook.



Palm is weighing in with the Foleo



The major difference here is the ASUS can use either Linux or WinXP while the Palm has it's own OS. I would think Linux would be my choice, but ...

Then there is the Via NanoBook Ultra Mobile Design illustrate the tremendous interest by the mainstream mass market.








The children the One Laptop Per Child has spawned.