$100 laptop more along the lines of $175
So just when we thought we could get away with purchasing an OLPC for ourselves for under $200, having to buy one for yourself and one to be sent to a developing country, it seems the price went up. Even though these machines are designed for kids in developing nations we can’t forget our own country with 19 state governors showing interest in grabbing some OLPCs for their own school kids.
If the price hike wasn’t bad enough they through salt in our open-source wounds when the “W” word slip, no not waldo. That’s right, it seems the XO’s developers have been working with Microsoft for a version of windows the machine can run. Now if I recall, wasn’t this device supposed to be opensource to cut down on actual costs?
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“It’s worse than that Jim”: with no software costs, the price of this computer is comprised exclusively of things which have been falling in price for some years, and some things which have been in glut recently. This means they must have under-estimated the cost originally by some two or three times.
A cynic might suggest that this explains why academics and consultants prefer the cosy cost-plus world of Open Source to the real world of competition….
on April 28, 2007 at 02:45 PM - LINKnow instead of 1 laptop per child, it has become 1 laptop per 1.75 child. i simply don’t get the idea of providing laptops to children of the third world when they still lack the basic needs - medicine, food, lodging… the money would be better used for something else, anyway, what use is a computer without internet? who is going to pay for their internet access?
on April 30, 2007 at 09:53 PM - LINKso, any good charity will have people (like leeches) jumping on wanting their own. any good grant will also have people (like crabs) bitching and pulling it all downward, so hooray for the leechy bitchy bastards that write and post here!
on July 31, 2007 at 06:27 PM - LINKWould like Ian Kemmish to ci=ontact me Thanks Ken
on October 18, 2007 at 04:59 PM - LINK