$100 laptop - we can have one!

Top stuff! We can buy one when they go on sale! J (well, 2 and one goes to Africa or something, but $200 seems pretty good to me for working on the train with no battery problems!)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6246989.stm

and

http://www.laptop.org/faq.en_US.html

One slight problem with the spec tho…

“The laptop will have a 500MHz processor and 128MB of DRAM, with 500MB of Flash memory; it will not have a hard disk, but it will have four USB ports.”

Not sure how long they will last?!?!?

Last time I knew, flash memory gets unlimited reads but limited writes, and hence we still have HDDs in normal pcs as there no good for operating systems due to the constant writing…??? i.e. after a few million writes they die, which is ok on your pen drive, but no good for the OS that likes disk activity (swap file, config files, Linux equivalent of the registry etc???).

If it doesn’t then goodbye hdd and I’ll use a ide to flash converter with 0ms access times…???