Access to computers - One Laptop Per Child

One Laptop Per Child is the brainchild of MIT's Nicholas Negroponte. He pioneered the creation of a $200 laptop that children in poor countries can use. You can now buy 1 laptop and give 1 to a poor child free for a cost of $400. Do you think this strategy will work? Will people see the good intentions here or just focus on its inferior performance when you compare it to Windows or Mac.

What do you think?

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Laptop With a Mission Widens Its Audience

By DAVID POGUE

Published: October 4, 2007

A low-cost computer intended to aid children in poor countries will soon be on sale here, for two weeks only.