Most of the models are 266 MHz and have Windows CE or Windows Embedded so thus then don't have the flexibility to really be a PC but more a dedicated Netbook like device to Wordprocessing Email Messaging and Browsing plus a few other functions perhaps Calculator and a Game. So the machines are slower but perhaps with two plus years of being around the software should be well optimized with (argh an inflexible windows version, locked) and the battery life should be even longer with the lower powered processor.
I still am interested in selling these machines under a get one when you give one program to help those in need get a basic device. The latest one I saw advertised at a pharmacy chain and supposedly with YouTube capability (does that mean flash or some other protocol?)
More questions remain, but the tifor the $100 computer in the states has arrived. The question becomes again then, "what is a computer?" since these models are not achieving all the goals we have. For me that would be an open system that is flexible for programming and customization
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