[clug] Scam or loss leader - US$150 laptop

[steve jenkin]

Anyone heard of this?
Scam or for real?? [If it's a scam, it'll put open source a long way back]
Like the article says - how can they afford to do it so cheaply?

<http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5746>

> The Celebrity has a 14 inch LCD, an Intel Celeron 1.5 GHz chip, a 40
> GB hard drive, 256 MB of memory. Linux and office applications.
>
> The big question: How is Medison making money from this laptop?
cheers
s

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