OLPC Cost Rises To $188 Per Laptop

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Sat Sep 15 12:46:00 UTC 2007


Indeed. The "magic" $100 figure comes from the projected cost of  
printing 5 years worth of text books. This is the actual cost OLPC  
wants to meet, independent of currency issues.

- Bert -

On Sep 15, 2007, at 14:09 , gafisher wrote:

> Yes, I'm afraid third-world countries will probably avoid paying  
> for these
> in US Dollars and the dream will die, just as when crude oil went  
> above $35
> a barrel and the auto industry collapsed.  <G>
>
> Seriously, the quoted $188 price relates at least as much to currency
> exchange rates as to intrinsic cost, and I don't believe the OLPC  
> was being
> built in the US anyway, nor is it being made to be sold in the US.   
> Let's
> see what the current cost is in Pulas or Escudos or Dalisis or the  
> currency
> of whatever other target markets exist and consider the issue on  
> that basis.
>
> Gary
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Klaus D. Witzel" <klaus.witzel at cobss.com>
> To: <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2007 1:54 AM
> Subject: OLPC Cost Rises To $188 Per Laptop
>
>
> In a slashdoted article
>
> - http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/15/0332225
>
> the author asks, Is this the end of the OLPC's newsworthiness, or  
> should
> we continue to hope that it will make the difference that so many have
> said it will?
>
> /Klaus







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