LAPTOPGRAM

The OLPC (One Laptop per Child) project is non-profit organization created by faculty members of the MIT Media Lab to design, manufacture, and distribute the laptops. The organization intended to distribute inexpensive laptop computer to children around the world, especially to those in developing countries, to provide them with access to knowledge and modern forms of education. But 19 governors of U.S. interesting to join the program.

And as reported by PC Mag: “We can’t ignore the United States. … We are looking at it very seriously,” Nicholas Negroponte, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology academic who founded the project.

The estimated price is $176 per laptop not $100 as known before, but in the next time the target price is $100. About the technical specification, the OLPC laptop comes with AMD processor and flash memory instead of HDD. The operating system itself using Linux, but Windows reported to be installed too as Microsoft dropped its Software price significantly. The laptop will be manufactured by Quanta Computer, a Taiwan-based manufacturer of notebook computers and other electronic hardware.