OLPC Announces Buy-2-Get-1 XO Laptop Sale

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theodp writes "Starting November 12, The One Laptop Per Child Project will sell its affordable XO laptop to Americans for a brief period of time, but there's a slight catch: U.S. buyers must purchase two computers — one for their own child and one for a child in the developing world — for a total cost of $399. 'Staff members of the laptop project were concerned that American children might try the pared-down machines and find them lacking compared to their Apple, Hewlett-Packard or Dell laptops. Then, in this era of immediate global communications, they might post their criticisms on Web sites and blogs read around the world, damaging the reputation of the XO Laptop, the project staff worried. So the laptop project sponsored focus-group research with American children, ages 7 to 11, at the end of August. The results were reassuringly positive.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.




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Although its original notebook, XO, costs double the target price, the Organization has evolved. OLPC has sent more than 500 000 XO laptops to children in 31 countries, including Afghanistan, Cambodia and Iraq. The organization expects to deliver 1 million by the end of this year.