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Group that plans to produce low-cost computers for poor children raises the laptops' price to $188.
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- What's the point then?
- by d0k0night September 16, 2007 1:12 PM PDT
- The whole purpose of this $100 laptop is just that - provide kids in 3rd world countries a chance to experience what the world has to offer, and affordably.
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- Something is better than nothing...
- by michaelo1966 September 16, 2007 2:01 PM PDT
- Though why the Gates Foundation wouldn't/couldn't subsidize the price down for developing country is a mystery. Oh ... the thing runs Linux. OK; maybe not such a mystery after all.
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- Gotta start somewhere
- by t8 September 16, 2007 2:40 PM PDT
- The price will inevitably come down.
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(3 Comments)If you jack the price up nearly two-fold...how is the technology going to reach the hands of these needy kids? Or instead of the laptop going to the hands of 100 kids, it'll only reach ~50. Then it's going to introduce all kinds of new problems - the "haves" and the "have-nots" - within a country that's impoverished as it is.