On 19/04/2008, Andy Leighton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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?
If you could get a job lot for #99 each, say. It would only make sense to give them to all kids, really. There would be no point in stealing them if all kids had them. Cheap is do-able really if you don't have to pay Microsoft for Windows. Only central government could really get the quantity order to get the price down. > 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. The Eee PC has an Acrobat reader on it, in the price... > 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. Which is a lot of the point of the Eee PC... funny it's supposed to be Microsoft's aim to have PCs everywhere and it could just be Linux that does it! 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. The Eee PC is available now! -- > > 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]/ > -- Please email me back if you need any more help. Brian Butterworth http://www.ukfree.tv
