A new competitor to the hundred dollar laptop? A Chinese company has plans to ship a $150 Linux machine, the "Municator," within the next three months:
Urging potential customers to "Say no to Wintel," YellowSheepRiver is devoted to using its own Linux distribution and hardware designed and manufactured by Chinese companies. YellowSheepRiver hopes to close the "digital divide" by making computer technology available to the Chinese public at an affordable price.
How do you say leapfrog in Mandarin, again? Of course, given the ever-increasing river of e-waste we're generating, it might be nice if the new generation of cheap machines were green computers as well.









