On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 04:17:24PM +0300, Brian Butterworth wrote: > The One Laptop Per Child project's machine is similar and has a few extras > (wind up battery, high contrast monochrome screen mode, webcam), but if I > was wanting to get elected at the next UK general election I certainly would > be proposing a whole job lot of these for every schoolchild in the UK.
Isn't that what Elonex hope with their even cheaper alternative? That local authorities are going to stump up a lot of cash to buy them for less fortunate kids? > For one thing if the schoolbooks were provided as downloaded PDFs then > children could walk to school again. I've found fbreader nicer for reading stuff from but unprotected Mobipocket format would be even less likely than PDFs. > And as far as corporates are concerned, there are many tasks that are being > done on Windows Mobile devices that could easily be done on a Acer Eee PC at > lower cost. Indeed we have been unable to persuade companies to do stuff on Windows Mobile devices (or high end mobile phones) because of the price. I still think the Eee is still probably too expensive for them although we might try suggesting the Elonex (after trying it ourselves) when it is available. -- Andy Leighton => [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The Lord is my shepherd, but we still lost the sheep dog trials" - Robert Rankin, _They Came And Ate Us_ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
