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The Register: First Pictures of the $100 Laptop

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 24, 2006

“Available in fetching orange and yellow, or shades of blue and
green, here’s the $100 laptop, which was unveiled at the Seven
Countries Task Force Meeting yesterday. Almost immediately,
pictures of the machine hit the net.

“Nicholas Negroponte heads up the One Laptop Per Child
organisation which hopes to get massive orders from third world
governments in order to put the devices into production. The idea
is to provide every child in some developing countries with one of
the machines…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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