‘$100 Laptop’ to Cost $175

“The founder of the ambitious “$100 laptop” project, which plans
to give inexpensive computers to schoolchildren in developing
countries, revealed Thursday that the machine for now costs $175,
and it will be able to run Windows in addition to its homegrown,
open-source interface.

“Nicholas Negroponte, the former director of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology Media Lab who now heads the nonprofit One
Laptop Per Child project, updated analysts and journalists on where
the effort stands, saying ‘we are perhaps at the most critical
stage of OLPC’s life…'”

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