[sitkack]

This means you can outfit a developer or student anywhere in the world with a functioning workstation for under $200, monitor, desk, keyboard, mouse, everything.

We might find it somewhat anachronistic, but it really could help bring millions of people out of poverty.

[godDLL]

The average engineering disposition might make you want for bigger, better workstation -- but you could, in fact, do 97% of engineering jobs with just X11, pdf reader, browser and a terminal. Jobs don't actually require you to run 100+ chrome tabs, install Steam, webcam in a video conference, etc. Those are there to endear you to the machine, so that part of you lives at work. The whole concept is not to the benefit of the employee.

[Alan_Dillman]

I agree!