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- falloutsyndrome, on 12/02/2007, -0/+26I'm really excited about this project. I can't wait to see where this goes, and I can't wait to finally meet someone who may have grown up with one of these laptops. It's a truly incredible project.
- geminitojanus, on 12/02/2007, -1/+25Learn the slightest bit about the OLPC and you'll realize these things have been covered:
1) It's not for "kids in the jungle" but "kids in the city with poor schools".
2) It can be powered by several different methods (cranks, pull cords, car batteries, wall outlets, more), and has a very long battery life.
3) Wireless Internet access is provided through mesh networking, allowing any one laptop that's near an access point to give any other machine near by wireless access.
The saddest part is that we go over this in almost every article about the OLPC; either you people are trolls, or don't have the slightest bit of memory, or are just too lazy to actually look this stuff up for yourselves, all three of which are absolutely pathetic. - sotopheavy, on 12/02/2007, -4/+17One Lapdance Per Child. A very happy christmas indeed.
- toddji, on 12/02/2007, -0/+11How does $188 * 50,000 = $2,000,000?
Wouldn't that be more like $9,400,000? - Ighuc, on 12/02/2007, -0/+10This is fantastic, laptops don't need to be advanced to be used as a learning tool and to the majority of these kids, this will be a godsend. It's good to see technology being used like this.
- lead2thehead, on 12/02/2007, -4/+14That's 2 million more than you donated, ingrate.
- Bamborzled, on 12/02/2007, -1/+8You want the free market, you've got the free market. Vote with your wallets; donate to OLPC and they might be able to do something with that money (like reduce the cost of each laptop).
- Kahlnen, on 12/02/2007, -0/+7Way to look a gift horse in the mouth?
- Narrator, on 12/02/2007, -0/+7Another point is that if there is no internet access everyone in the Mesh can talk and collaborate with each other in every application provided with the OLPC. If at least one person in the Mesh has internet access then everyone in the Mesh can gain access to the internet. The computer uses very little electricity and is built to survive dust, rain, and dropping. It can even be powered by a small solar panel or foot pedal. That's the whole point of the OLPC in fact is to engineer a laptop that can be useful in a rural African village. Both the hardware and software of the OLPC reflect this.
- legendxx, on 12/02/2007, -0/+6i did
- Bamborzled, on 12/02/2007, -0/+6A laptop is an infinite supply of crayons, glue, and craft papers.
- Chandon, on 12/02/2007, -1/+7It's not like these kids are starving now. If you give a poor kid $188 worth of food, his family will spend the $188 they saved on booze and designer jeans. If you send him an education optimized $188 laptop computer, there's a reasonably high probability (even 5% would be fine here) that he'll learn something useful and increase his expected lifetime income by tens of thousands of dollars.
- protogenxl, on 12/02/2007, -0/+6lower power hardware, new type of battery, aggressive PM software
- HerbertScrunge, on 12/02/2007, -0/+5And this would never have happened without OLPC.
- krinn, on 12/02/2007, -0/+595000 orders for give-one-get-one is pretty good. They have been advertising like crazy too. At the local mall half the billboards are for OLPC. I wonder who paid for those ads.
- drhamr, on 12/02/2007, -8/+13"Dear Sir/Madam, I write to you in great faith on behalf of the King of Uruguay, praise his majesty, who has been kidnapped by Peruvian rebels. We seek your assistance in releasing funds from a swiss bank account in the Kings name, containing 21,000,000$ USD - you will, of course, receive a 10% commission for your effort .... "
- krusader3z, on 12/02/2007, -0/+5I agree with the comment above. I cannot wait until I read about some from (insert country here) whose eyes were opened to the world thru this program, and went on to reform the world he lives in (IE his country/ situation)
- Bamborzled, on 12/02/2007, -0/+5Give a man to fish, he gets fed for a day.
Teach a man to fish, he gets fed for the rest of his life.
Sorry for using a stereotypical old adage, but think about that for a second or two while you open up your bag of chips. - progrockguy, on 12/02/2007, -1/+6What is Intel doing?! Why are they competing with the OLPC (http://www.classmatepc.com/index.html) ?
I doubt the sincerity of its stated intentions. As a corporation it isn't interested in helping children but only in fattening the shareholders' wallets.
I really hope OLPC comes out on top (nonprofit vs. greedy corporation, c'mon), but Intel presents a huge challenge. - Charbax, on 12/02/2007, -0/+5Several are offering free advertising to OLPC, also on TV there are probably going to be free advertising provided by TV channels that want to contribute, they are probably going to show those ads: http://www.youtube.com/OLPCFoundation
- lead2thehead, on 12/02/2007, -0/+4It's like the saying goes... teach a man to phish and he'll feed himself for a lifetime.
- gaucho4, on 12/02/2007, -1/+5Since this is essentially a humanitarian type of effort, I would think that Intel, Asus, and the OLPC group would form some sort of alliance to pool resources to making the project bigger so that it can enrich the lives of more kids living in poverty. This really is a great opportunity for many of these developing nations to improve their situations through the use of technology in the schools.
- appletalk, on 12/02/2007, -0/+4I just hope they're truly only covering costs and there're no profits.
- unpolloloco, on 12/02/2007, -2/+5Isnt education what this laptop is aimed at???
- cyssero, on 04/18/2009, -0/+3The price of the laptop surely includes/covers marketing and other finances, travelling for those on the board, etc.
- Narrator, on 12/02/2007, -1/+4The machines don't and can't run windows. Which makes their resale difficult. They also have an auto bricking system if they are stolen. The fact that the PCs can't run windows is actually a big advantage over the classmate pc in that the re-sale market becomes limited to linux geeks which would buy an eee pc anyway.
- dotorg, on 12/02/2007, -0/+3If there's limited charitable resources to go around, I'd argue helping those who are at the cusp of being able to help themselves is a far better use of the resources. These ARE about providing education and a better opportunity for children. Get them educated and able to better their lives and THEIR children will reap the benefits.
Feed someone with those same resources who may otherwise have starved to death and the odds are the children they'll then have will also starve to death if the same resources aren't spent on them. Whats more cruel? Allowing someone to starve to death or allowing the children they have starve to death?
I'd rather my money go towards an upward spiral, not a downward spiral. - CharlesSaint, on 12/02/2007, -1/+3Kind of like... http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-12920 ...
- inactive, on 12/02/2007, -3/+5 I predict a mass exodus of young third worlders in 10 years when they are old enough to leave their countries to come to the West. What child once they are down the developed world is going to want to stay where they are?
- Mactard, on 12/02/2007, -0/+1The open source revolution is growing fast...Wal-mart pc, eeeeeeepc, olpc, Dell Ubuntu success....future is looking a little brighter.
- stalefries, on 12/02/2007, -0/+1lol, Eeeeeeeeeepc.
- EntangledPhysx, on 12/02/2007, -1/+2You get dugg down because you only look at the situation from one angle.
- blackb0x, on 12/02/2007, -1/+2food won't allow them to become our tech support outsource destination in about 10 years, but the computers will!!!
Hey, it worked for India. - emmanuelsotelo, on 12/02/2007, -2/+3Some people have no shame at all:
The founder of Lagos Analysis Corp., Ade Oyegbola, was convicted of bank fraud in Boston in 1990 and served a year in prison. Oyegbola insists his Nigerian patent is legitimate and said he plans to file a copyright-infringement lawsuit against OLPC in an American court. - joeanon, on 12/03/2007, -0/+1I can't wait to get one and install XP on it. I mean, in the end is this price that much cheaper than a 'lite' laptop design and taking windows off doesn't save much money either. Plus, why make it a laptop. Are poor people in that much need of portable computer and do people without electricity really want computers anyway.
I think they want food, fuel, tools, roads and LIBRARIES. I mean.. everyone needs computers but the traditional way of bringing information to the masses are libraries and I think they've proven to be quite effective. Plus how useful can they possibley be without internet ?
I know plenty of people from developing countries but the biggest comaplint I've heard is lack of good internet, not lack of the availability of computers. The hit a country takes on it's power grid is only proportional to the small amount of intitial adopters. We'd be just as good selling and giving them our old PCs as hand-me-downs that are to slow to be useful to richer nations.
Diebold had lots of orders too. That didn't make their product good. - EntangledPhysx, on 12/02/2007, -0/+1With kids getting new educations and the like thru this OLPC program, the future may show great promise and changing things for the better. Learn to get more food... how to clean water... housing details. Imagine the possibilities.
- scott2007, on 12/03/2007, -0/+1Of course you're being dugg down pointing out the obvious. Food, drinkable water, healthcare, sex education, condoms, basic school supplies... who cares when we can send them laptops so Western pedophiles can exploit them online instead of having to travel? I don't want to be overly cynical (like the jackass who replied that their families waste money on booze and designer jeans), but this program is a waste of resources which appeals to isolated, relatively rich people who have no idea what it means to live in poverty.
- martalli, on 12/03/2007, -0/+1Only if they upgrade the processor to a 64x2 or c2d style processor. The current processor is adequate, but no speed demon. Anyway, we missed the date for Skynet and HAL. We look good so far.
- marx2k, on 12/02/2007, -1/+1I see a lot of kids playing BC Quest For Tires. Not sure why.
- rockrapdude, on 12/02/2007, -3/+3Now the mesh networking part I didn't know. And how did they make the batterylife longer?
- fac3less, on 12/02/2007, -1/+1Yeah, because technology has advanced us to the point of working on farms to hiding in bedrooms reading fark.
This is the end of the world as we know it. - dudley9, on 05/25/2008, -0/+0http://www.genericsmed.com
http://www.generics.ws - Konklone, on 12/02/2007, -2/+2I guess your name says it all. Give it a chance.
- iota, on 12/02/2007, -1/+1Teach a man to phish, and your grandparents credit card feeds him for the rest of his life.
- madk, on 12/02/2007, -4/+3Dug up as they are way more important issues that getting kids laptops. How bout a basic education, food and shelter?
- madk, on 12/02/2007, -3/+2Using a PC with no network to connect to and extremely limited software will teach you nothing.
- StanleyKoolPrik, on 12/02/2007, -2/+1The idea behind this is noble and good, but by the time this device gets down to $100 there will be a dozen better, higher-powered devices out there at the same price or better. If there's a market, there's a way.
- pego99, on 12/03/2007, -2/+0Wow! What a great scam/idea. They should do a commercial with the poverty pimp guy with the beard from save the children but instead show the little boy getting his laptop but no food to eat or medical care but he has his laptop. This is a giant scam to sell computer parts by the promoters. Its just another poverty charity scam.
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