I feel so behind, this is old news! It's the first I'd heard of it but the initiative is almost two years old. Rollout supposedly starts at the end of this year.

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When do you anticipate these laptops reaching the market? What do you see as the biggest hurdles?
Our preliminary schedule is to have units ready for shipment by the end of 2006 or early 2007. Manufacturing will begin when 5 to 10 million machines have been ordered and paid for in advance.

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Wow. This will be interesting to follow.