Hundred dollar laptop backer Nicholas Negroponte says the laptops will actually cost $175 and will have an options for running Windows. The realities of manufacturing and designing mass market products has set in, but the result is still pretty good, don’t you think? I saw a prototype a few weeks ago, and they ditched the crank now too. Hopefully they keep the wireless mesh.
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