January 21, 2008...7:08 am
$75 Laptop To Launch In 2009
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“Why is it that the price of DVD players has dropped precitiously in the last 15 years, but laptop prices have stayed flat by comparison?” asks Mary Lou Jepsen the Founder of Pixel Qi.
The former Chief Technology Officer at the One Laptop Per Child project, responsible for creating much of the low energy technology used in the XO $100 laptop, has set up a new company to change this and bring ultra low cost notebooks, ebook readers and mobile devices to as wide a market as possible.
They are also developing a new screen technology with works well in strong sunlight by changing the display from colour to black and white depending on the light intensity.
Something tells me this one is going to be more popular than the Macbook Air.
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