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don't tell anyone, but that is really a prototype laptop which wasn't meant to be sent out yet.

This is in fact the Oracle Disposable Laptop(ODL). The theory is that when one of your workers have to go on a trip, he gets one of those, with a full battery(Lithium, non-rechargeable), stores all his documents on an USB memory-stick, and when the battery runs down, or the trip is over, he just tosses it in the nearest paper-recycling container.

The reason they haven't announced it(yet) is that they've been having a few small problems printing a functioning LCD, keyboard, battery and... well... just about everything in fact...

Sources say that it will be formally unveiled as soon as the keyboard functions, and sales is projected to start soon after.

The LCD is hopefully operational by the time they introduce V2.0 and the processor is slated to show up in the V2.5i version.

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