One Laptop Per Child, a U.S. based nonprofit organization has come to terms on an agreement with the Libyan government that will provide low-cost educational laptop computers by 2008 to the country’s 1.2 million school children.
$100 Laptops Will Cost $130
Many people were skeptical that MIT Media Lab could churn out a laptop for $100. And they were right. It’ll cost between $130 and $140 until the One Laptop Per Child lead Nicholas Negroponte can fill enough orders to drop it to $100. But it’s been a valiant effort and excitement around the recently unveiled prototypes is growing.
$100 Laptops Face Hurdles
M.I.T lit up the world when it announced its massively philanthropic One Laptop Per Child program (OLPC) with the aim of putting $100 laptop computers into the hands of the poorest children on Earth. And no one is blaming them, but despite all noble intentions, skeptics are saying project leader Nicholas Negroponte is putting the cart before the horse.
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MITs $100 Dream: Laptops For Every Child
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory is working on a visionary project that could potentially put the Internet in the hands of millions of children all over the world and single-handedly force the revision of several business models in the tech industry.
Seagate Gives Laptops Big Storage Increase
Consumers who have been favoring notebook computers over desktop machines now have more reason to choose a laptop.