Yet another reason to get angry with Bill...

[Duncan Anderson]

On Sunday, 19 March 2006 17:25, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Sunday 19 March 2006 16:43, Duncan Anderson wrote:
> > There are many rural people in South Africa who are literate and
> > who are starved for intellectual stimulation. Books are way too
> > pricy. A new science textbook costs almost $50, so a $100 laptop is
> > a miracle. A new Thinkpad or ACER travelmate or whatever costs at
> > least $800.
>
> I'd really like to buy one of those $800 Thinkpads you speak of :-)
>
> My local Incredible Corruption^W Connection will sell me a
> Siemens-Fujitsu for about that price but a ThinkPad is more like 4
> months wages for a labourer

I'm not talking about T43 or T60 or Z60 Thinkpads, more like R50e and other 
less fancy models. You can get an R50e for about GBP500 in Tottenham Court 
Road. I priced one in SA a while back and I'm sure it wasn't too expensive.

Incredible Rip^H^H^HConnection tends to be a bit OTT unless they're running a 
special. Those Fujitsu Siemens beaties look like quite a good deal.

cheers
Duncan

		
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