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The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) machine -- which boasts extremely low electricity consumption, a pulley for hand-generated power, built-in wireless, and a screen with indoor and outdoor reading modes -- now costs $175. Even at $175, the OLPC computers upend the standard economics in the PC industry. A huge reason has been its use of Linux.
The founder of the ambitious "$100 laptop" project, which plans to give inexpensive computers to schoolchildren in developing countries, revealed that the machine for now costs $175 (EU129), and it will be able to run Windows in addition to its homegrown, open-source interface.
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The XO machines will be made by Quanta Computer Inc., the world's leading manufacturer of portable computers. Quanta agreed to take a profit of about $3 (EU2.20) per machine, less than what it gets from mainstream PC companies, Negroponte said.
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However, Negroponte disclosed that XO's developers have been working with Microsoft Relevant Products/Services Corp. so a version of Windows can run on the machines as well. It could be the $3 (EU2.20) software package that Microsoft announced last week for governments that subsidize student computers. It includes Windows XP Starter Edition and some of Microsoft's "productivity" software.
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The founder of the ambitious "$100 laptop" project, which plans to give inexpensive computers to schoolchildren in developing countries, revealed that the machine for now costs $175 (EU129), and it will be able to run Windows in addition to its homegrown, open-source interface.
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The XO machines will be made by Quanta Computer Inc., the world's leading manufacturer of portable computers. Quanta agreed to take a profit of about $3 (EU2.20) per machine, less than what it gets from mainstream PC companies, Negroponte said.
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However, Negroponte disclosed that XO's developers have been working with Microsoft Relevant Products/Services Corp. so a version of Windows can run on the machines as well. It could be the $3 (EU2.20) software package that Microsoft announced last week for governments that subsidize student computers. It includes Windows XP Starter Edition and some of Microsoft's "productivity" software.
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