$100 Laptop Price Increases
In an ironic twist, the anticipated price of the 2007 model of the “$100 laptop” will be $138. Announced last month by Nicholas Negroponte, the chairman of the One Laptop Per Child association, the projected price will drop to $100 by the end of 2008 and $50 in 2010.
The announcement came at the second annual AMD Global Vision Conference in Pasadena, Calif.
The non-profit, Delaware-based OLPC association was the brainchild of several professors at MIT, including Negroponte. OLPC’s goal is to engineer and produce a low-cost laptop — the $100 laptop — that will be available for use in developing countries “to provide children around the world with new opportunities to explore, experiment, and express themselves,” the OLPC Web site states.
“The project has its roots in everything that [Nicholas Negroponte, Seymour Papert, and I, among others] have been working on for more than 30 years at MIT,” said Walter Bender.
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