Dell making cheap computers for India, China

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Beijing-based Lenovo, which acquired IBM Corp.'s PC unit in 2005, is targeting China's vast but poor rural market with a basic PC released last year and priced as low as 1,499 yuan ($220).


I just want to sit in the coffee shop and work on my novel.

My sister bought a lap top. 600$, no windows disk, they want another 400$ for the disk in case the lap top crashes. (Vista).
My wife bought a 59$ childs toy that looks like a lap top and plays 30 different games and makes cool noises and everything. Doesn't do word processing, not even on plain ascii text files.

Three years ago there was a 220$ lap top released in china. But not in north america.

We're being gypped. All these manufacturers have a lock on the market and are keeping the prices sky high. The low priced stuff is for other people , it's banned in here by various anti-competitive agreements.

There's a story floating around about how some company was going to have word perfect or some other non microsoft word processor installed on their windows computers when they sold them. Microsoft found out about it and bluntly told them that if they tried it they would stop selling them copies of windows and so they'd have no operating system to go with it.

I think it's the same thing going on here.

And I know it's the same thing going on with coke and pepsi. You walk into a store, and you see only coke products and you ask why there are no pepsi products at all , and the store owner tells you when the coke is delivered the driver checks for competeing products , and if he finds any the store loses a big discount it's getting for being a coke only provider.

The consumer is not being well served by this kind of nonsense. We're being robbed.

Why the hell can you make a childs toy lap top with 50 different educational games on it for 59$ , but you can't make a simple text editor with the same get up ? And a simple usb port to upload/download from your main computer ?

We're being robbed.