{"id":6247,"date":"2008-01-09T20:31:26","date_gmt":"2008-01-09T20:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/the-disposable-laptop.html"},"modified":"2008-01-09T20:31:26","modified_gmt":"2008-01-09T20:31:26","slug":"the-disposable-laptop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/the-disposable-laptop.html","title":{"rendered":"The Disposable Laptop"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you think the disposable computer is a silly concept, you better not read this article <\/a>from the New York Times about how the former CTO of the one laptop per child (OLPC) initiative is looking to make a — get this — $75 computer. The OLPC goal was a $100 computer but it ended up costing $200 instead.<\/p>\n

Certainly, ideas like this have to keep Michael Dell up at night.<\/p>\n

Pixel Qi is the company behind this idea and Mary Lou Jepsen s the former OLPC CTO. I remember paying about $15 for a disposable camera on a vacation a few years back… I wonder how much a disposable computer would be worth to me.<\/p>\n

Sadly, the disposable computer idea is not very green — but that doesn’t mean it won’t happen. Last I checked, Hummer still sells cars. Sure not as many as five years ago but they still sell.<\/p>\n

A natural place where these cheap computers could come in handy is at airports since the way things are going with the new battery rules<\/a>, it could be a matter of time before we can even bring a laptop with us through security. I already feel like a criminal for carrying a laptop in my bag.<\/p>\n

Is it a stretch to think we can just buy new laptops after we get to our destinations and just plug a memory stick into them for personalization purposes? In fact with a fast enough internet connection we may not even need any personalization on memory sticks since everything could be SaaS.<\/p>\n

This idea may seem silly today but I am sure it will have legs at an airport near you in 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you think the disposable computer is a silly concept, you better not read this article from the New York Times about how the former CTO of the one laptop per child (OLPC) initiative is looking to make a — get this — $75 computer. The OLPC goal was a $100 computer but it ended up<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6247"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}