The One Laptop per Child project hopes to lower the cost of its laptop for developing nations to $50 per unit by 2010, Nicholas Negroponte said in the opening keynote at the LinuxWorld conference in Boston. The first units are scheduled to ship in December this year or January next year at an estimated cost of $135 per unit. Technological advances are expected to bring down costs to $100 by 2008 and $50 by 2010, Negroponte told delegates.
The project is supported by the United Nations and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where Negroponte heads up the Media Lab. It hopes to ship 5 to 10 million units in 2007 to Argentinia, Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Nigeria and Thailand. The One Laptop per Child project was kicked off in January 2005. But although the technology is the most visible, the project isn't about creating low cost hardware, Negroponted said.
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The project is supported by the United Nations and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where Negroponte heads up the Media Lab. It hopes to ship 5 to 10 million units in 2007 to Argentinia, Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Nigeria and Thailand. The One Laptop per Child project was kicked off in January 2005. But although the technology is the most visible, the project isn't about creating low cost hardware, Negroponted said.
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this has my vote for the best carpc, _ _ _ _ computer, etc. whatever you need an extra small machine for. plus with a 500mhz amd processor and 128mb of ram its more than fast enough for even the most intensive windows CE applications. 128mb is more than enough to run at least 3 apps simultaniously.
It would make a nice little server anyway.
The organization is just giving samples to Microsoft so they can develop CE for it. They have no current plans for CE. It is primarily a Linux device, not a Windows one.
You really wouldn't want or need a laptop with a crank handle on the side if you can just charge the laptop by plugging it into the mains! The countries and children being targeted here do not have that luxury.
Let this project bed in for a few years and I am sure that then everyone will be able to buy cheap equivalents (or better) on the high street.
Now on a serious note, it would be cool if they were to release an american modle of the laptop (ie mabie with a battery) for a 'profit' to fund the laptops for the under devolped countrys, and increase production so the price scales with it.
I also see them being sold on ebay and ebay not stopping the sales, they let people sell those charity wristbands on ebay
Last edited by SMeK on 05 Apr 2006 - 16:53
If something like this comes (say at $200 or more with nice configuration), corporates would loose more than 75% of their revenue, since 75% of the PC users will be satisfied with this cheap box.
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