Quanta Computer's shipments of XO notebooks under the OLPC (One Laptop per Child) project may be delayed, again, to the fourth quarter instead of the third quarter due to a delay in designs of varied application scenarios for different emerging markets, according to an April 20 Chinese-language Commercial Times report.
Okay, so it is REALLY hard to make a decent $150 laptop and the pessimistic folks at Merrill Lynch might really got it right.
Btw, has anyone checked the secondhand chinese market? I got a IBM x21 for $200 last month, and it's operating system is (Windows 2000) not as gay as the OLPC sugar.
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