Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> $100 laptop coming next year
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> | The $100 laptop at the heart of the OLPC (One Laptop
> | Per Child) initiative aimed at school children in
> | developing countries will start rolling off
> | production lines in the second quarter of next year.
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | Although the final numbers will depend on how many
> | orders come in for the $100 laptops, Quanta expects
> | to produce 10 million of the devices in the first
> | year of production, a company representative said today.
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> http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=7403
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> The target is to produce 300-500 million of these within years.
> This would also lower the production costs.
"OLPC improved LCD displays commonly found on inexpensive DVD players,
resulting in a laptop screen costing $35. Normally, such screens make up
hundreds of dollars of the cost of a notebook PC."
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