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

Interesting how excited everybody is about this.

Why not just purchase a real refubished laptop for the same price?

http://www.pcsurplusonline.com/ has laptops for as little as $59.  But then again, shipping to Nigeria may not be so easy.

Stones instead of Bread?



Recently this headline caught my attention: “A LOW-COST LAPTOP FOR EVERY CHILD - Effort to link world’s rural poor to Internet with $100 computers gets boost from U.N.” Shivers went through me. Over the years, my wife and I have traveled to more than two dozen Third World countries and have seen children struggling with unbelievable obstacles—hunger, disease, and countless other ills. Amazingly, these children were happy with the little they had. Certainly they needed help—but not low-cost laptops, as trumpeted by the headline I referred to above. That would be like giving stones to someone asking for bread.

you've all had a good discussion so far,
but mind you if you notice what has been said about this so called laptops, you'll see it's for kid, they kept repeating children, children, to use for their studys in school maybe in learning ABC, 123, and change the power source every 10 mins. i can as well assure you that this toy won't be lesser that $300 when it first gets here cos even 15 million production of this year will hardly serve lagos state alone, you know our population, and the few priviledged ones that manage to get it will want to sell X3 (u no, biz now).
moreso, i believe,most of us here are no kids, u can't compare a p4 or P.M intel centrino, mobile technology laptop, that can handle projects like video & sound editing, macromedia flash, corel draw, 3d animations & games and so on, with a 486 sys if you know what all these means you will know that you dont have to wait for a coming toy before you get your sys, cos u'll be disapointed that it might not be able to handle what you wanna do. also, i can assure you if it is a computer of less than $100 that you want. you av a lot of them in ikeja and other places. its just dat Hi tech guys have passed that, and such sys can't handle our kind of jobs. hope u understand. so no point waiting, get what you  need today and start doing something. if it comes i'll also buy it for my kid sister. a known devil is better than an unknown angel

i read somwhere that this the FCT minister was making arrangments to make these laptops available to secondary school students in the FCT for as low as 15,000 naira. that is supposed to be available really soon.

but after all d hype about the 100 dollar laptop matter has anybody bothered to check the specs. i read tis going to have like a 2gig HDD, 4usb ports, wirless network,  i don't remeber the oda details but i remember t was supposed to run linux.

what do you guys think you're going to get from a 100 box laptop: perharps a good memory or a good graphic card or a good processor or what !!! i ask. The computer is intended for nursery/elementary school children  , stay off the topic of a $100 laptop, it's capital B/S.

 No seriously Kamakuka said sumthin about gettting to know how the prototype works and designing a similar one to it, I am all for that idea. It shouldnt be all that hard to put together.

its so funny how most of u guys love awuf well the laptop in question cannot be used alone as in it need some sort of mesh network positioned into the space & its not some type that u can just pop a cd rom into & start doin stuffs. Its a gadget or some sort of miniature of laptop not capable of any real job. I read it sometimes ago that those coming 2 west africa will run Wazobia  Linux you know its an open source thing. So don't be this-illusioned. go 2 otigba wit dat amount add little money u'll bring home correct p3 pc. cheerio

It's not a powerful laptop, besides, it's for primary and college pupils, basically, that is, Seun can't possibly use it, neither can i

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They don't want it to be bought by individuals.  They want the government to buy it and then give "for free" it to the children.  How naive.  If you prevent adults from buying the notebooks legally, they will obtain it illegally.