Tuesday, May 1, 2007

OLPC Raises Hundred-Dollar Laptop Price to $175 (PC World)


OLPC Raises Hundred-Dollar Laptop Price to $175 (PC World)

PC World - The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) group said Thursday that it had raised the price for its hundred-dollar laptop to US$175, but were still confident they would collect enough orders to begin volume production by September.



Acer Recalls 27,000 Laptop PC Batteries (PC World)

PC World - Just six months after saying Acer Inc. laptop PC users would not need to replace any batteries amid a massive global recall, a company subsidiary announced a recall for 27,000 batteries in the U.S.



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I have a dream . . . of the perfect portable computer

In the earliest days of my Computing column -- circa 1993-1995 -- my reviews of notebook computers used a certain schtick: I wrote each as though I