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Seriously though: with enough government subsidies you could make a free laptop. A $10 doesn't mean it will cost that much to produce. OLPC covers its costs with the price of the laptop.]]>May 4th 2007 1:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/forget-the-olpc-xo-india-working-on-10-laptop/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/forget-the-olpc-xo-india-working-on-10-laptop/May 4th 2007 2:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/forget-the-olpc-xo-india-working-on-10-laptop/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/forget-the-olpc-xo-india-working-on-10-laptop/May 4th 2007 2:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/forget-the-olpc-xo-india-working-on-10-laptop/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/forget-the-olpc-xo-india-working-on-10-laptop/May 4th 2007 3:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/forget-the-olpc-xo-india-working-on-10-laptop/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/forget-the-olpc-xo-india-working-on-10-laptop/
Finally, the third world is gonna whup yr assets and do it for themselves. No way does India, land of smarts, need an MIT 'solution'. It is about time that India, or China, or Brazil, developed its own technologies.

OLPC is so focused on a purely arbitrary price ($100 per unit, which it apparently can't meet) that it is overlooking the fact that the process of developing - and building and maintaining - a revolutionary IT product would be the biggest boost for these economies. Outsource the OLPC!

There has also been too much focus on the product itslef. The process is equally important, although the biggest issue is the end result. With laptops being pulled from US classrooms, the whole concept of handing laptops to every child is questionable. I have yet to see a convincing argument that simply because a laptop is available kids will somehow become smarter and their country will develop faster.]]>May 4th 2007 6:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/forget-the-olpc-xo-india-working-on-10-laptop/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/forget-the-olpc-xo-india-working-on-10-laptop/
And it will play Doom.]]>May 4th 2007 8:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/forget-the-olpc-xo-india-working-on-10-laptop/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/forget-the-olpc-xo-india-working-on-10-laptop/May 6th 2007 5:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/forget-the-olpc-xo-india-working-on-10-laptop/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/04/forget-the-olpc-xo-india-working-on-10-laptop/May 7th 2007 4:29PM