Comments on: $100 Laptop, more like $175

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 23:09:57 +0000

David Kirkpatrick just blew this story wide open…Intel is in serious trouble if the laptop comes to the US. In addition, it appears that Microsoft and OLPC have finally realized the opportunity they have to change the world together…

(link)

By: Kyle

Kyle — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:27:33 +0000

Heard Red Hat use this quote yesterday to refer to the OLPC project. The project is definitely at stage 3, but stage 4 may be right around the corner…

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."

~Mohandas Gandhi

By: syawal

syawal — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 07:23:39 +0000

“It’s an education project, not a laptop project.”
- — Nicholas Negroponte..

It really going to go as low as possible .. maybe perhaps less $100 in 2-3 year..

By: Don MacAskill

Don MacAskill — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 02:08:07 +0000

I believe there are 7 different ways to human power the device, of which the crank is probably one.

I'm not sure they've been demo'd or talked about yet, but should be soon.

Of course, I've been wrong before. :)

By: RandomThoughts

RandomThoughts — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 00:26:46 +0000

OK, can we stop calling it the $100 laptop then?

Sounds like global warming, things get colder even though its called global warming.

Maybe people that name these things need to work with some marketing folks.