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XO Laptop

This is a new laptop. It costs 100 dollars! It was made for developing countries, especially in Africa.
It has no hard drive, no CD or DVD drive. Instead, it has 1 GB flash drive, similar to those used in digital cameras.
The processor was made by AMD and is much more slower than todays chips. It's operating in speed of 433MHz, in comparism, some of today's high performance machines have multiple chips with speed up to 3 GHz.
It also has a Wi-Fi catcher, on sides of the waterproof screen, and the antenna looks like RABBIT EARS. The range is 1.5 mile.
XO uses the new version of Linux, it's so compressed, that it takes up only 130 Mb of space.
Plastic case is simple but water and also dust proof.
Screen has also buil-in camera for video-chat.