Motive Behind the $100 Notebook: Profits

Anonymous Reader writes “If you shop around, you can actually get a functional computer for $500. But as we become more budget conscious, $500 seems to be a bit much for a standard machine, so what’s our next target? Why, It’s an over ambitious $100 notebook. How companies accomplish this is their business; what we are interested in is what they ship out for a product when all is said and done. As of now, however, there is one thing that interests me even more, and that is, why would they want to sell me a $100 notebook in the first place?”