$189 Laptop
And Today, in the laptop world…
Asus chairman Jonney Shih sprang a surprise during Intel’s Computex keynote today with the announcement of a $189 laptop.
This little baby would be less than P9000 is today’s rates. This has a small hard disk space – only 2GB.
The low price comes from some interesting design choices, primarily the flash-based hard disk.
It uses a Linux OS. Probably good enough for school work but not for gaming. No news on Internet connectivity yet.
Looks like an expensive portable typewriter to me.
They did say they saw Firefox running, and it looks like OpenOffice is there too.
Enough for most users, especially first-time users, I think.