100 dollar laptop

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Fri Jul 14 12:40:42 UTC 2006


Chanchao wrote:

> On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 10:54 +0200, Sebastian Gil wrote:
> 
>> "Please note that the $100 laptops -not yet in production- will not be
>> available for sale. The laptops will only be distributed to schools
>> directly through large government initiatives."
> 
> Which is a bit strange..  Why not make them available to anyone who
> wants one.  It seems that users in developing nations will also benefit
> from a large user base.  Sell them for more than $100 to cover the costs
> of distribution / repairs / warranty then.  $200 even, or ANY price,
> allow people to contribute to the project by paying higher for what
> could become a very trendy item.
> 
> Anyway, I want one, don't make me buy one off a third world kid. :)

LOL.  I agree that if you really can produce a cheap laptop for the world's
kids it only makes sense to make it available at profit to help subsidize
the project.  
-- 
derek





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