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Global laptop project makes offer to consumers: Give one, get one http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2003898922_hundred24.html
By BRIAN BERGSTEIN
The Associated Press
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The project that hopes to supply developing-world schoolchildren with $188 laptops will sell the rugged little computers to U.S. residents and Canadians for $400 each, with the profit going toward a machine for a poor country.
The One Laptop Per Child project expects that its "Give One, Get One" promotion will result in a pool of thousands of donated laptops that will stimulate demand in countries hesitant to join the program.
It will be offered for only two weeks in November at www.xogiving.com
Originally conceived as the "$100 laptop," the funky green-and-white low-power "XO" computers now cost $188.
The maker, Quanta Computer, is beginning mass production next month but with far fewer than the 3 million orders project director Nicholas Negroponte had said he was waiting for.
More attempts for low-cost laptops http://www.globallaptop.com/index.html
Quanta to build the $100 laptop (2005) http://www.news.com/2100-1042-5994056.html
Quanta Computer Starts OLPC XO Production http://www.olpcnews.com/commentary/press/quanta_computer_olpc_xo_production.html
Global laptop project makes offer to consumers: Give one, get one http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2003898922_hundred24.html
By BRIAN BERGSTEIN
The Associated Press
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The project that hopes to supply developing-world schoolchildren with $188 laptops will sell the rugged little computers to U.S. residents and Canadians for $400 each, with the profit going toward a machine for a poor country.
The One Laptop Per Child project expects that its "Give One, Get One" promotion will result in a pool of thousands of donated laptops that will stimulate demand in countries hesitant to join the program.
It will be offered for only two weeks in November at www.xogiving.com
Originally conceived as the "$100 laptop," the funky green-and-white low-power "XO" computers now cost $188.
The maker, Quanta Computer, is beginning mass production next month but with far fewer than the 3 million orders project director Nicholas Negroponte had said he was waiting for.
More attempts for low-cost laptops http://www.globallaptop.com/index.html
Quanta to build the $100 laptop (2005) http://www.news.com/2100-1042-5994056.html
Quanta Computer Starts OLPC XO Production http://www.olpcnews.com/commentary/press/quanta_computer_olpc_xo_production.html