$188 laptop faces production delay, shortage
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The $188 string-pulley-charged XO laptop was scheduled to go into production at a Chinese factory in October, but it is now slated to begin by November 12, said Mary Lou Jepsen, chief technology officer for the One Laptop per Child Foundation.
“We had some last-minute bugs. We’ve resolved them,” she said in a recent interview, adding that the group expected to produce 100,000 laptops this year. It will now be tough to get those laptops to South America by December, in time for kids to use them over their summer vacation, and also meet orders for the foundation’s Give 1 Get 1 program for people in the United States and Canada, she said.
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