'$100 laptop' begins production (BBC) - Democratic Underground

eppur_se_muova

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Wed Nov-07-07 05:23 PM
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'$100 laptop' begins production (BBC)

Mass production of the so-called $100 laptop has begun, five years after the concept was first proposed.

Computer manufacturer Quanta has started building the low-cost laptops at a factory in Changshu, China.

One Laptop per Child (OLPC), the group behind the project, said that children in developing countries would begin receiving machines this month

Last month, OLPC received its first official order for 100,000 machines from the government of Uruguay.

"Today represents an important milestone in the evolution of the One Laptop per Child project," said Nicholas Negroponte, founder of OLPC.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7082701.stm

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Hydra

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Wed Nov-07-07 05:24 PM
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1. Damn

I don't buy from China, no matter how good a program it is.

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Wed Nov-07-07 05:32 PM
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