It looks like everyone would like to pick on Negroponte's project, the One Laptop Per Child program, be it the $186 price when they had $100 in mind at first, or the fact that some producers may have a similar product, right now.
Joy of Tech managed to do a snapshot of what's going on now and what will happen one year later when the kids will have their hands on it and the shortcomings are real:
- the need for an upgrade
- most of them will use games and chatting software
- needs a good bandwidth to access the internet
- pornography?
Here are the sketches.
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The battle between the OLPC project (with voices saying Negroporte failed) and the Eee PC from ASUS is still on, but the low cost laptop is supposed to sell in 3.8 million units next year (fiscal year), or that's what... [Read More]
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