One Laptop Per Child
The OLPC program has announced a Give One, Get One program! Starting November 12th, you can pay $399 to give an XO-1 laptop to a child in need and simultaneously get one for yourself. What a novel idea! I figure since the entire purpose of the OLPC project is to provide needy children with computing capabilities, it’s only fair that it you want to buy one “at retail,” you should buy one for someone who needs one at the same time.
I wonder how the Asus Eee will fare against the XO-1. I’m thinking they’re aimed at different markets, so we probably won’t see much competition at all…
The thing is, for $400, it’s still somewhat interesting, although maybe not that useful to, say, me.
But that $400 includes the satisfaction of knowing that you just bought one for a poor student somewhere. And it’s still cheap.
n1zyy
24 Sep 07 at 8:42 pm