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- $100 laptop doubles in price but generates first large order
- The $100 laptop project has gotten twice as good, or at least twice as expensive, as the Cambridge Foundation has not achieved the economies of scale that it thought it might at the beginning of the project. Still, $200 for a laptop is an incredible price, and the project...
- Blog posts 2007-10-30
- $100 laptop doubles in price, but generates first large order
- Would you contribute to the "$100 laptop" project?Would you or do you know anyone who would purchase a laptop for $400 in order to have one donated to the developing world? Do you know any companies that would be willing to purchase some of these machines to donate?good idea,...
- Discussion threads 2007-10-30
- $100 laptops to be available to the public
- A new marketing strategy being adopted by the proponents of the One Laptop Per Child OLPC project may result in the XO Laptops being available in developed nations while contributing to their spread in developing nations as well. The laptop, originally targeted with...
- Blog posts 2007-09-27
- $100 laptop is now $188
- The much publicized "$100 laptop" of the nonprofit One Laptop Per Child OLPC initiative has acknowledged that the devices will now cost $188 when mass production begins this fall. The initial $100 price point has been relegated to that of a long-term goal. A variety of...
- Blog posts 2007-09-15
- $100 laptop now $188
- it's an education project rather than a tech project so hopefully notThe mass production should eventually drive down the costs. I hope buyers don't consider cutting there orders especially as it's a project to provide education. If it was a project to provide a cheap computer for retail then there...
- Discussion threads 2007-09-15
- New photos of the first working prototype of the $100 MIT laptop
- What the world needs now is a good $100 laptop!Now that LCD/TFT panel technology has reached the point where $100 laptops are feasible, I think that this might come to be one of the most socially significant inventions of the 21st century.Why?I can remember buying one of the first $100...
- Discussion threads 2007-07-19
- Intel inside $100 laptop?
- Does this alliance presage a move to put Intel Inside the OLPC?Does this move lend credibility and momentum to the OLPC, or is this just a foot in the door for Intel?
- Discussion threads 2007-07-14
- Intel inside $100 laptop?
- Intel said Friday it will join the board of the One Laptop Per Child program and contribute funding to the project that created and is distributing the XO computers for education. This comes after Intel execs have been critical of the design and after they designed and promoted a competing...
- Blog posts 2007-07-13
- $100 laptop debuts in Uruguay
- The Laptop Project has delivered their first XO machines, the famed "$100 laptops", faster than previously expected, to a school in Uruguay, after Brazilian beta testing. XOs are RoHS-compliant for safety. They run on a 366MHz AMD Geode GX, and burn only two...
- Blog posts 2007-05-29
- (Images: MIT's $100 laptop)
- supplier of your product to rural areas of the Niger-DeltaNechuks is in discussion with schools in rural areas of the Niger-Delta, of Nigeria to explore the opportunity of using your product to enhance techological transformation of learning in children.We want to purchase some as sample to demonstrate what we...
- Discussion threads 2007-05-22
- A $100 laptop prototype for $150
- Correct link to the photo galleryThe $100 laptop prototypehttp://content.techrepublic.com.com/2346-10877_11-37494.htmlWhy not take care of our own?If we an do this for developing nations, why not for the inner city students in our own countr
- Discussion threads 2006-11-17
- Photos: The $100 laptop prototype
- The One Laptop per Child project debuts its first prototype of the $100 laptop for school children in developing nations.
- Image galleries 2006-11-16
- $100 laptop 'will boost desktop Linux'
- Not convinced 100% about the OLPC philosophyI have difficulty in understanding/agreeing with the OLPC philosophy; that holds the belief that if a child sees a PC as its own, then it improves the chances to educate the child.So how can children be engaged in their own education, by providing them...
- Discussion threads 2006-06-07
- Photos: Can I get that $100 laptop in orange?
- The low-cost PC design for the masses is sooo not your average black or beige computer.
- Image galleries 2006-05-24
- New photos of the first working prototype of the $100 MIT laptop
- Today at the Seven Countries Task Force Meeting, the first working prototype of MIT's now famous $100 laptop was presented. Looking at these pictures compared to the earlier ones, I'm wondering where the hand-crank is now. Is it in those horns that are sticking up? Whatever the case may be, I think this...
- Blog posts 2006-05-23
- Negroponte: Slimmer Linux needed for $100 laptop
- Assuming too muchI agree that the generation I'm a part of; and all younger generations pick up technology faster. Yet, there is a difference between that and being able to figure out a modern operating system. Kids in the US learn technology quicker then their parents because they are immersed...
- Discussion threads 2006-04-05
- Photos: The $100 laptop on Linux
- Image galleries 2006-04-04
- Get Cranking
- One would assume from the tone of the article that Mr. Microsoft is sour grapes on the whole idea. Perhaps because it does not have a M$ product inside it. But he may be right if you are comparing any user of any current laptop who tries to...
- Discussion threads 2006-03-16
- Quanta to build the $100 laptop
- $100 LaptopQuanta $ 100 Laptop!I'm a senior citizen, aged 68, and am legally deaf. I cannot do sign language because of arthritis in both hands. I would love to have one of these lap tops in order to communicate with people one on one when I'm...
- Discussion threads 2005-12-16
- Images: MIT's $100 laptop
- 100$ LaptopWell, considering it isn't April 1st, this looks like a great idea...but why focus on developing countries? There are enough people in our own country who could use one of these devices. They make an excellent tool for children with some learning difficulty or with fine motor skill challenges....
- Discussion threads 2005-09-30
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