Of course, with such a price it is not a beast nor a ultra fast laptop, but it does exist. To remain below the $100 line, the MIT has used all freeware/OpenSource offers to built a software package for this cheap notebook.
And Apple has proposed a big deal : free OSX x86 licenses for all notebooks!
The MIT has declined the offer due to their strategy to develop it with OpenSource solutions; but it is anyway a nice offer from Apple.
[update] thanks to colonel Moutarde, one of our forum members, who is currently at the
[MàJ] Merci à Colonel Moutarde, membre de nos forums qui est actuellement au World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis to have sent us this photo :
On the left carton-board-based prototype, and on the right the functional prototype.
