Famous $100 Laptop To Cost $188
By William on Monday, September 17th, 2007 at 3:42 PM PST In Gamer Life
The famous laptop project by the OLPC project will now cost $188 instead of $100. The One Laptop Per Child project has been plagued with problems for some time now. The price has nearly been doubled by the not-for-profit organization to cover losses and fill a void with the inability to book orders.
According to The Times Online, 5 billion of the world’s 6.3 billion people do not have access to the internet, which is a goal of OLPC to correct. I certainly believe that they mean well and children all over the world deserve the same opportunities. I’m not quite sure if I’d ever want to see all 6.3 billion people in the world on the net at the same time though. There’s quite a few people on the net now that really shouldn’t be there.
Via Times Online
Honestly, I’m amazed there are 1.3 Billion of us online now.
And building a $100 laptop realistically shouldn’t be difficult at all. Just aim for 1995 or 96 era technology, Implement heavy usage of prebuilt used hardware recycled into the laptops, and have donation drives for out of date hardware.
That’s besides the fact that internet is nowhere NEAR as valuable as first literacy and economic prosperity. There’s also the logistical problem of introducing billions of non-english speaking people to a vastly predominant english internet. You can hardly set up new websites and communities in your local native language based on $100 laptops.
Like me, I should have never been on the internet.
Most of us shouldn’t be on here, but it does make my gaming a lot more fun. Stupid free porn. Maybe I’d talk to my wife more (and vice versa) if we didn’t have all this danged technology !
“I’m not quite sure if I’d ever want to see all 6.3 billion people in the world on the net at the same time though. There’s quite a few people on the net now that really shouldn’t be there”
Who the hell are you to say who should be online and who shouldn’t?! If anyone shouldn’t be on the Internet, it is YOU based upon your snobbish comment.
I’m sorry if you think I was snobbish. Perhaps I was trying to be a little funny, but I am serious that i wouldn’t want to see all 6.3 billion people online at the same time. Can you imagine the lag?
nobody should be online.
weclock lol maybe so. the internet has really done some good and bad for life in general.
Anyone on YouTube shouldnt be online
Blatant attacks ftw