Newly Designed Laptop to Cost $100 (14,000 Naira) or Less

Sub-$100 laptop design unveiled

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4292854.stm

The laptop will be tough and foldable in different ways, with a hand crank for when there is no power supply.

Professor Negroponte came up with the idea for a cheap computer for all after visiting a Cambodian village.

His non-profit One Laptop Per Child group plans to have up to 15 million machines in production within a year.

A prototype of the machine should be ready in November at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunisia.

Children in Brazil, China, Egypt, Thailand, and South Africa will be among the first to get the under-$100 (£57) computer, said Professor Negroponte at the Emerging Technologies conference at MIT.

Its going to come down to Nigeria. Its a great development to Human being (especially third world nation).

And a way out for windows OS.

Amazing!

I don't think it can do much... seems like it's for high school kids only.

Yeah, but sadly, it's never going to be retailed. Never going to go out on sale for the public.

That's a welcome development but who says it won't get to the market? If here in Nija, it will. In fact you'll be very surprised to see it in abundance. It's just a matter of time.

But anyways, it's a welcome development.

It's truly not going to go into the market for you to buy, Cushman and Otokx. "Please note: these laptops are not in production. They are not—and will not—be available for purchase by individuals." A comment on the official site of MIT Media Lab.

Read it for yourself though; http://laptop.media.mit.edu/

instead of diverting these laptops into the wrong handswhy doesn't someone figure out a way to make a similar one.  Then, all you need to do is raise the start up capital to create a prototype and start production on it.

Let's all pray that if it eventually gets to Naija, it'ld be for the same price.

Nice price, compared with the price some of us paid to get one

I doubt if established laptop makers will ever make this project to see the light of the day.

Wow this is amazing.  The laptop is cool; I am getting it for my lilttle sister.

of course it wont do much but who knows again. hopefully it lands naija, and you know they may spike it sef.

Some people in here are so carried away with the promise of a $100 laptop. Have any of you think about how "big" $100 is. Many can't even afford their daily bread talkless of getting $100. Untill people are empowered stuffs like this will continue to be rich mans toys.

i would be glad to see this come to pass in Nigeria. may God bring it to us, Amen.

A prototype of a cheap and robust laptop for pupils has been welcomed as an "expression of global solidarity" by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.
The green machine was showcased for the first time by MIT's Nicholas Negroponte at the UN net summit in Tunis. He plans to have millions of machines in production within a year.

The laptops are powered with a wind-up crank, have very low power consumption and will let children interact with each other while learning. "Children will be able to learn by doing, not just through instruction - they will be able to open up new fronts for their education, particularly peer-to-peer learning," said Mr Annan.

Read the rest here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4445060.stm

  Agree completely with fregene and joftech, this sounds like a movie i watched some days ago "the first 20 million dollars is always the hardest " these tech guys decided to invent a laptop that costs just 99 dollars, they did eventually in spite of oppositions from many angles ( u know movies now- the good guys win out in the end). However a laptop that's as cheap as that! come on! there's no free lunch anywhere! it's 2 good 2 b true.