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Article: Nonprofit Group Hikes Price of $100 Laptop; One Laptop Per Child Foundation's XO laptop will sell for about $188, despite being known as the "$100 laptop".
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- eWeek
- Article date:
- September 14, 2007
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BOSTON (Reuters)--A nonprofit group that plans to produce low-cost computers for poor children has raised the laptops' price, a spokesman for the foundation said on Friday.
The One Laptop per Child Foundation's XO laptop will sell for about $188, up from the $176 the group announced in May, said foundation spokesman George Snell.
That's almost double the original goal of the foundation's founder, Nicholas Negroponte, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher and the brother of U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte.
Negroponte, who founded the MIT Media Lab, often refers to the product as the "$100 laptop." Production is slated to begin in October.
"We are testing it. We ...