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September 24 2007: 4:21 AM EDT

http://money.cnn.com/2007/09/24/technology/hundred_dollar_laptop.ap/index.htm?source=yahoo_quote


CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) -- The project that hopes to supply
developing-world schoolchildren with $188 laptops will sell the rugged
little computers to U.S. residents and Canadians for $400 each, with the
profit going toward a machine for a poor country.

The One Laptop Per Child project expects that its "Give One, Get One"
promotion will result in a pool of thousands of donated laptops that
will stimulate demand in countries hesitant to join the program. It will
be offered for only two weeks in November.

Originally conceived as the "$100 laptop," the funky green-and-white
low-power "XO" computers now cost $188. The laptops' manufacturer,
Quanta Computer Inc., is beginning mass production next month, but with
far fewer than the 3 million orders One Laptop Per Child director
Nicholas Negroponte had said he was waiting for.

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By opening sales to people in the U.S. and Canada at
http://www.xogiving.com, "Give One, Get One" will delight computing
aficionados, because the XO is unlike any other laptop.

It has a homegrown user interface designed for children, boasts built-in
wireless networking, uses very little power and can be recharged by hand
with a pulley or a crank. Its display has separate indoor and outdoor
settings so it can be read in full sunlight, something even expensive
laptops lack.

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The catch is that "Give One, Get One" will run only from Nov. 12 to Nov.
26. Negroponte said the limited availability is partly necessary so the
nonprofit doesn't run afoul of tax laws, but mainly designed to create
scarcity-induced excitement.

Thailand, Uruguay, Nigeria, Brazil, Libya and Rwanda are among the
countries that could be in the first wave of laptop customers, though
specifics have not been announced now.

...

In September 2005, he was saying that 5 million to 15 million machines
might be in production in 2006, with perhaps 100 million out by now. In
April 2006 he foresaw 5 million to 10 million XOs dotting the landscape
in 2007.

Now 250,000 to 300,000 are due to be made by the end of this year.
Negroponte expects that to ramp up to 1 million a month next year,
though he still lacks signed orders for that many.
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