Anon wrote: > Obviously you don't live in a 3rd world country. I do and nothing is 50 > bucks here except the women. Nobody throws anything out except dead cats > and PCs cost about 350 USD for a new build based on 3-5 year old NOS parts > the Americans dumped on the market after they went obsolete. > >
Well you can get computers in Canada for under 50 dollars, so it would require shipping them. If you do it in massive bulk (palettes or containers) it only adds about 5-10 dollars extra shipping cost to each computer. And if you do it in massive bulk, it means the computer is no longer 50 dollars but a bulk discount is applied so only about $40 dollars. I have shipped containers across the ocean to other countries before with hundreds of computers across Atlantic ocean. If you do not order them in bulk then it costs too much to ship them (more to ship them than the price of the computer itself!). It's all about bulk and quantity. So the third world country would have to gather all their funds together, and do a bulk purchase, rather than each person purchasing individually. The advantage of the raspberry pi is that you might be able to shove it inside a bubble padded envelope, whereas desktop computers need to be packed up on palettes and containers. Still, you need to buy LCD monitors or CRT, so the lightweight raspberry pi is a moot point, since LCD's and CRT's are heavy. Unless you already have LCD/CRT monitors and just need the PC part.
