Wednesday, February 20, 2008

$100 Laptop now $187, $50 by 2011?

Nicholas Negroponte, co-founder of the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) project, presented a Keynote at the American Academy for the Advancement of Sciences earlier this week. Some items in his presentation:

  • OLPC laptops are currently being produced for $187
  • Thousands have been delivered
  • Over 500,000 more are in the pipeline
  • Production is now at 110,000 units per month
  • Price will fall to $100 by the end of 2009
  • Price will fall to $50 by 2011
Read a review of his address from Wired.
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