Public can purchase $100 laptop
The One Laptop Per Child project “OLPC“, plan on releasing their new machine on general sale next year. According to the BBC the cost of the Laptop will be $100, but customers will have to buy two of them, with one Laptop been donated to a developing country. Accoring to the article, currently it costs $150 to make each Laptop so releasing it to the general public should help lower costs even more.
Five million of the laptops will be delivered to developing nations this summer, in one of the most ambitious educational exercises ever undertaken.
Michalis Bletsas, chief connectivity officer for the project, said they were working with eBay to sell the machine.
“If we started selling the laptop now, we would do very good business,” Mr Bletsas, speaking at the Consumer Electronics Show, told BBC News.
“But our focus right now is on the launch in the developing world.”
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