Bill Gates is still ridiculing the idea, but the cheap computer is gaining steam.

“A Chinese company has claimed to have developed the nation’s first

low-cost computer priced at 125 US dollars, using an indigenous central

processing unit and the new product will hit the market in June, a

report said today…

The performance of Longmeng, or Dragon Dream, is equivalent to a 1G

Pentium III desktop, according to Zhang. It is a computer, a DVD player

and also a video game player. The computer, equipped with standard PC accessories,

is portable as it is the size of a textbook and weighs 500 grams.”

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