[mdlug] Quanta launches ultra-low-cost PCs

[Jeff Hanson]

Quanta Computer, the world's largest manufacturer of notebook
computers, will start making ultra-low-cost computers that could be
sold in developed markets for as little as $200 this year or the next,
according to its president.

The Taiwanese contract manufacturer is already producing a laptop
developed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers that
will be distributed to children in third-world countries – under a
non-profit project called One Laptop Per Child – for as little as
$150.

But Michael Wang, Quanta's president, said on Tuesday that the
concepts developed through the OLPC project could be applied to create
commercially viable machines that are cheaper than anything on the
market so far.

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