timothy murphy sfseoquheircomnet tue 30 oct 2007 josef assad wrote ive argued many times elegant solution would supporting local market mechanisms refurbishment resale older hardware theres good amount people afford new computers given ldcs keeping hardware operation first owner regards obsolete far effective going inventing whole new way use computers bah dont agree olpc seems several advantages eg energyefficient hardy uses flash disk etc well course laptop cheap doubt mac plus would found useful niger thu 07 aug 2008 074828 0000 ilug olpc third world asus eee pc