Although Cubans have been able to get underground PCs for a while now, the Cuban government only recently lifted the official ban on them, and the first publicly-available machines just went on sale Friday. The state-approved QTECH PCs are only available at one store, where crowds formed to gawk at some pretty clunky tech -- the $780 towers feature Celeron processors, 512MB of RAM, Windows XP, and come with a CRT display. Not only that, but most Cubans won't even be allowed to have Internet access as only "trusted officials" and state journalists are allowed home net access. That's a pretty weak state of affairs, but it's not necessarily as dire as it seems: now that computers are legally available, some Cubans expect black market prices on up-to-date gear to come down. The managed economy in action -- anyone know if Cubans have unofficial ways of getting online as well?
THIS SHIT IS SAD....!
-- Edited by selectorbyron at 20:45, 2008-05-03
steppa said
19:45 05/03 2008
damn
Crazypickney said
14:21 05/04 2008
wat the hell, boi them treat the cubans dem bad star, give the people dem likkle internet a dem yard
pengo said
14:24 05/04 2008
mi woulda neva want fi land dehsoh. slavery dat.
bLaCkBeatZ said
20:37 05/04 2008
lmao i neva kno dis...dats y there r no members here from cuba
Shem1 said
20:38 05/04 2008
boy real dictatorship
shami said
20:42 05/04 2008
hmmm very sad but it gonna keep gettin better i hope
Buddah said
20:44 05/04 2008
damn...dem have it rough...but some ppl dont even have electricity...so di world go
THIS SHIT IS SAD....!
-- Edited by selectorbyron at 20:45, 2008-05-03