Comments on: U.K.'s Elonex readies low-cost Linux laptop

Aimed at the education sector, the laptop will feature, among other things, a flash-based hard drive and a "wireless music server." But, the company says, it's "not really about the specs."

[Hernys]

Specs are not important

"specs are not important, cost is" reads the same as "the product is a piece of cr*p, but it's cheap".
OF COURSE specs are important. Without the adequate specs you don't have something that's useable. And if you are dismissing specs it is because you are sacrificing them to reach an artificial cost point. You have to have the specs AND the cost.
These comments make me think they have neither.

[chonnom]

Maybe he could have put it better...

I think the point here is that their not trying to make products for power users; they're trying to make cost efficient machines that will do the bare minimum. The reason being here that many people (read most of the world) don't have the funds to go out and buy a computer but would benefit from web-access and other things (type homework, e-mail said homework, etc). I expect this machine to not impress many of us but WILL impress a child whose family doesn't have the money to buy a computer.

[Vegaman_Dan]

They said much the same about the Yugo

And where is that car today?

Sometimes having a machine capable of doing the job is more important than the cost.