100$ Laptop and Online computing

I chanced upon to read a blog post on 100$ laptop that is going to be in the markets very soon.

I wrote about what this low-cost computer potentially means a bunch of times and won’t rehash that here. But it will have a big impact on the market and may be the thing that — if pervasively adopted — drives a shift from the desktop to web-based computing, storage, etc. This is where Google’s acquisition of Jotspot (+ docs & spreadsheets, etc.) and companies like Zoho would really benefit.

The thing about these machines is that they don’t have lots of hard drive space so they will have to leverage the Internet as a computing platform.

That is really where online computing is going to be a commodity. That will make even more people to access and organize their information online. That comes with an added benefit of not having to worry about the storage, virus and security. Google is racing to the market as is Zoho.