First keep the performance, then the price
I understand that as days go by, people or at least governments start to order more and more XO laptops. It is good, but I have started to wonder, after reading a post on RuggedNotebooksBlog.com about market being invaded with cheap rugged laptops in the future, if this is going to happen or not. I think that there will always be a good market for regular laptops, for rugged laptops as well for those cheap ones that for sure will not offer high performances for the price.
I don’t want to say anything against XO or OLPC, the initiative is great and it will help a lot of people (children) learning computers and stuff, but I don’t think that producing cheap laptops on large scale is an answer. We need performance to go on, we need speed, we need power for our processors and these cost money.
Well, don’t get me wrong, I think that getting the price down will be good, since I always love to not spend very much for a product, whatever that is, but ok, let’s cut the price down to how much we afford without losing facilities or performance.
This is my opinion. Rugged laptops need strong shells, good displays that withstand bumps, hits, components that are stronger than regular ones. All these cost money. Let’s keep it up with performance. If we could also cut the price down at least a bit, it will be great also.
What do you think?
