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Article: YOU CAN GIVE A LAPTOP, GET A LAPTOP.(Stars)(Column)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- November 11, 2007
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Byline: AL FASOLDT TECHNOFILE
The only thing Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child project couldn't manage was the price. His plan to build millions of laptops for kids in poor nations is doing well otherwise.
And even that one slipup in financial planning can be forgiven. In 1995, when Negroponte announced his plan to build enough cheap laptops so every needy kid in the world could own one, his target price seemed ridiculous - $100 per laptop, only 5 percent of what a typical laptop cost back then.
Inflation and the cost of manufacturing pushed the price to almost double the original goal.
But even at $180, the cute little XO ...