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1 Million OLPCs Already On Order
alphadogg writes "Quanta Computer has confirmed orders for 1 million notebook PCs for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project. The article goes into some background on the project, and lays out the enthusiastic adoption that the project is seeing overseas. The company estimates they'll ship somewhere between 5 and 10 Million units this year, with 7 countries already signed up to receive units. The machines currently cost $130, but with that kind of volume the original goal of $100 a machine may be viable. Even with the low cost, Quanta expects to make a small profit on each machine, making charity work that much easier."
They run Linux, so they won't get automagically infected like all the Windows machines out there.
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Give a child a loaf of bread, and you feed him for a few days.
Give the child a laptop, and you have fed him for life.
Ridiculous? Consider just some of the profitable ventures you can start with a computer...
- Become a 419 scammer
- Sell shit on ebay for much more than it's worth (and charge $75 shipping)
- Install an smtp daemon and become a spammer
- Write viruses and sell them on the black market
- Start a tech blog, with plenty of advertisements. Search for content on other sites, and get monkeys to post summaries of it. If you have trouble finding articles, dup your own.