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Laptop With a Mission Widens Its Audience

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New York Times; By David Pogue
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Despite all the obstacles and doubters, O.L.P.C. has come up with a laptop that’s tough and simple enough for hot, humid, dusty locales; cool enough to keep young minds engaged, both at school and at home; and open, flexible and collaborative enough to support a million different teaching and learning styles. It’s a technological breakthrough, for sure.

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For all those who want something portable and affordable I recommend checking into the asus eeepc. While it is not able to compete with the heavier laptops, it will fit the needs of many in my opinion.

I have a desktop to do all the things I need, but I would like a laptop to keep up with emails, news, updates.. etc.. and the asus eeepc 701 will do just that.

http://event.asus.com/eeepc/ http://support.asus.com/ http://www.eeeuser.com/
I was seriously considering one, but the shipping date keeps slipping and the price keeps going up. At $200-250, it's reasonable, at $300 and up I'm better of with a $400 Acer laptop from Walmart.

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