Scientific American reports that the XO-1, previously known as the $100 Laptop is going on sale even though it was originally intended for only the developing world.
These are low cost, low spec machines which use flash memory instead of a hard drive and use linux as the operating system. The faculty of MIT labs have realised that there is a market for this laptop even though much higher spec machines are available at the $350-$525 mark it might be sold for. This is proabably due to the ruggedness of the machine and the ability to power the machine with a hand crank or solar power.
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