jicjak
Sep 2006
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On the subject of value for money...
"Wal-Mart to carry $199 computer
Wed Oct 31, 2007 8:16 pm
Story : http://www.chicagotribune.com/busin...,0,5023511.stor
Scattered among the $500 to $1,000 desktop computers available at Walmart.com, one machine stands out. It doesn't have a unique design, but its price tag looks like a typo: $199.
Prices for consumer electronics goods, ranging from HDTVs to mobile phones, drop consistently, but few products have more potential to impact a person's ability to learn or find work than a computer.
The cheap computers -- sold beginning this week at 20 Illinois Wal-Mart locations -- are offered at a time when charitable efforts such as the "One laptop per child" program intended to provide portable computers for $100 to children in developing countries, have struggled to achieve results. That laptop will now cost $200, but the program has yet to deliver a product.
The computer for sale at Wal-Mart, on the other hand, can immediately put an affordable machine into the hands of anyone from students in low-income households to senior citizens on strict budgets, thus addressing the critical social issue of a so-called "digital divide" in the U.S. between those with access to computers and the Internet and those without."
Damn URL no good. This one is: http://www.chicagotribune.com/busin...ll=chi-news-hed
Last edited by jicjak on 11-02-2007 at 12:07 PM
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