In the last three news, MIT’s One Laptop per Child (OLPC) initiative has topped the headlines. Since the possibility of the public actually being able to buy one of the little beauties arose, people have been salivating. Two hundred dollars doesn’t seem like much for such a nifty piece of hardware, but can you realistically match that value at home? Tom’s Hardware Guide (a fantastic tech site) has come close. This week, they’ve featured an article walking you through building a $300 desktop, step by step.
The resulting desktop runs at 3.2 GHz, which beats my old laptop (which I still use to tinker with programming projects). I hope that they revisit the topic in six months. I would be interested in seeing the improvement in performance six months would yield.
The article is definitely worth checking out, and the site is worth a bookmark.
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