> Hi, > > >> > >> When was the last time you were in a 3rd world country? No need for > >> infrastructure to support a laptop? You make me laugh! > > > > It might be helpful if you could be very clear about what, to you, constitutes > > a Third World country. My mother lives in one. With a laptop and a digital > > camera. > > I had in mind most of sub-saharan Africa. Where does your mother live? > > Are you claiming that your mother's laptop runs in a country with no > infrastructure? > > When I talk about a country having no infrastructure I mean that in most > parts of the country, or for most of the population, there is no electricity. >
No, there's infrastructure but not up to "First World" standards. She's in the Caribbean, and she lives in a city. My point was mainly that there's a wide range of Third World countries; they can't really all be lumped together. > I'm intrigued to hear that graywolf thinks laptops needs no infrastructure. Do > they run on solar power? Clockwork? I'll be leaving it to graywolf to say what he thinks. ERN
