OLPC laptop project: April 2007 ship date and $130-$140 initial cost
” The ruggedized, two pound Linux desktop (Fedora) system, with mesh networking will sell for about $130 to $140 (san shipping) to governments starting in April 2007.” - Between the Lines blog on ZDNet–with other details.
June 2nd, 2006 at 2:50 pm
Ethan Zuckerman has a nice report about his visit to the OLPC headquarters:
http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=824
(Link via http://robotwisdom.com/)
June 2nd, 2006 at 3:10 pm
Thanks, FrF!
June 7th, 2006 at 12:14 am
[...] Via TeleRead I see that the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project is inching ever closer to reality. For those that haven’t been keeping up, OLPC is a non-profit headed by Nicholas Negroponte, the founder of M.I.T.’s Media Lab. Originally known (at least colloquially) as the “M.I.T. $100 laptop project”, the OLPC’s goal is to produce cheap laptops to sell to third-world governments so that they can give them to poor kids. [...]