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

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.'"

Comments

From the frozen North.....

[Anonymous Coward]

Good to see that Bush has finally stuffed your country economically, like he's done with your internal legislation and Foreign Policy....

When you come begging to us, don't expect to get any favors! Maybe we'll come down and set fire to your White House again?

Uhm, thanks.

[ceeam]

You ramped up the price to make Windows run and now look for excuses? Well, I think I'll root for Asus EEE (10" machine looks really really good as a replacement for almost all of the functions people's desktop and laptops do, but even 7" is not too shabby either). Bonus points is that by default it's KDE oriented as opposed to evil GNOME on OLPC/XO.