[Foundation-l] [Fwd: [Liste Burkina] Price of MIT professor's "$100 laptop" hits $200]

[Florence Devouard]

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Subject: 	[Liste Burkina] Price of MIT professor's "$100 laptop" hits $200
Date: 	Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:46:20 +0000
From: 	Mohamed SAWADOGO <sawadogo_m at hotmail.com>
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"BOSTON (Reuters) - A computer developed for poor children around the
world, dubbed 'the $100 laptop,' has reached a milestone: Its price tag
is now $200.The One Laptop per Child Foundation, founded by MIT
Professor Nicholas Negroponte, has started offering the
lime-green-and-white machines in lots of 10,000 for $200 apiece on its
Web site (http://laptopfoundation.org/participate/givemany.shtml
<http://laptopfoundation.org/participate/givemany.shtml>).Two
weeks ago, a foundation executive confirmed recent estimates that the
computer would cost $188, which was already higher than the $150 price
tag in February and $176 in April.

The laptops are scheduled to go into production next month at a
factory in China, far behind their original schedule and in quantities
that are a fraction of Negroponte's earlier projections.It is
unclear when the machines will be ready for customers, as the Web site
said version 1.0 of the software that runs the machine will not be
ready until December 7.Foundation spokesman George Snell declined
comment on the pricing or release schedule.When
Negroponte said he could produce the laptops for $100, industry
analysts said it had the potential to shake up the PC industry,
ushering in an era of low-cost computing."
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