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Aug 03 2007 12:00am EDT

Lenovo Jumping On the Cheap Computing Bandwagon

In a China, where incomes average less than $600 a year, Beijing-based Lenovo will start selling a $199 PC. (It also sells an $800 smart phone in China -- obviously not aimed at the rural villagers.)

Lenovo is also launching a marketing project that's gone largely unnoticed outside China: It is outfitting a bus with computing and networking gear and putting on a road show at 1,000 "small" Chinese cities. In China, a small city is, like, 1 million people.

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