[Its.an.education.project] Sugar on the EEE PC

[Stephen John Smoogen]

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 11:20 PM, John Watlington <wad at laptop.org> wrote:
>
>  The XO has a good reason for existance (MLJ's display, and attention to low
> power design).
>  Ignoring the fact that most of the new "low-cost" laptops require much more
> power ---
>  a serious problem in the most underserved areas --- the price trend is for
> the second
>  generation of the "low cost" laptops to head back to $500.
>  The Asus 900 has a suggested list of $550 ?
>

A couple of reasons for that:
1) The US dollar is deflating which brings up component prices etc
2) The companies have to put in a price point that will make them
money for some time frame so they need to choose high right now to
make sure they aren't making too many systems at a loss (which they
can do for things like game stations since they make up for it in
selling licenses for games) but can't on a laptop/desktop since its a
single sell.
3) The brain seems to like certain 'round' numbers: 100, 500, 1000 are
good things to sell at while 250, 300 etc are not.

I think the general idea for first off is to not worry about the
hardware yet. Make the software and structure work on whatever the
people can get be it a laptop or a Ncomputing system. That allows for
the focus to stay on the education.


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Stephen J Smoogen. --
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in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"