[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood for this link. ]
“A pilot project in Africa aiming to provide a single computer
that can be used by four students simultaneously has stumbled
across one of the business world’s basic facts of life: Why make a
cheap machine when customers in the developed world will pay good
money for a more expensive one?“The question hangs over efforts being made by American
computer-maker Hewlett Packard, which in the last two weeks
introduced the Multi-user 441 desktop, a computer based on the
open-source Linux operating system. HP reckons the unique
design–in which four keyboards and monitors are connected to a
single central processing unit–will save schools up to 60 percent
of their ballooning computer costs…”