Laptop Master - Laptop reviews and news » ??One Laptop Per Child ?? http://www.laptopmaster.info The latest and greatest Laptop Reviews! Sat, 10 May 2008 13:34:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 en ??$100 laptop’ now in children’s hands http://www.laptopmaster.info/100-laptop/483/%e2%80%98100-laptop-now-in-childrens-hands/ http://www.laptopmaster.info/100-laptop/483/%e2%80%98100-laptop-now-in-childrens-hands/#comments Tue, 31 Jul 2007 18:54:15 +0000 http://www.laptopmaster.info/100-laptop/483/%e2%80%98100-laptop-now-in-childrens-hands/ The concept now turns into reality! $100 laptop is soon to bring big smiles on the faces of pupils in rural South American hamlet. The five years old concept of $100 laptop project finally gets the green light to ramp-up production of this low-cost machine. This low cost machine is scheduled to hit the streets this October.
The concept took five years of designing, collaboration and innovation for bringing the $100 laptop to this stage and this has been a turbulent journey for One Laptop per Child (OLPC), the organization behind the scheme and its founder Nicholas Negroponte.
Some critics
?? notion is that such a cheap device could not offer the technology or durability required to be beneficial. Others pointed out that the target third-world countries had more burning problems, such as starvation, dehydration and disease.

But for OLPC this endeavor is not a gift of modern technology, but […]

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