Nigeria Orders One Million OLPC Laptops

[GHoosdum]

Nigeria has placed an order for one million of the "One Laptop Per Child" project's $100 laptops, which currently (ironically?) cost about $140 each. This order brings the OLPC project 1/5 of the way to being production-ready.

Both Intel and Microsoft have said they think its crap. It's probably pretty good then. They've got their own version which - true to form - costs about three times the price.
This also means one million orders for cheap AMD processors...

Source: The Inquirer (http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33279)

[Buddy J]

Dear Sir/Madame... Greetings! I am representative of wealthy uncle.

Hopefully these won't be used for spam.

[Cyclonite]

I was wondering. Did they offer to pay for shipping with a Fedex account that has an address somewhere in Idaho? "Hello sir. I would want to know if these are in good condition? please reply soon. I hope to do business you soon."

[profdlp]

You guys beat me to it. ;D

Thank you and may God bless you. :)

[Leonardo]

This also means one million orders for cheap AMD processors... Yes, but only if the project receives a threshold number of orders to make the project economically feasible. I forget, but there has to be several million orders before the project has an economy of scale necessary to produce the machines that the given pricepoint. It's not a for-profit venture really, but neither is it charity.

Here's the Register's reporting (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/26/india_says_no_to_olpc/). Five to ten million paid orders are needed before the laptops can go into production. I'd love to see this project succeed. I just wonder though, what percentage of these computers will actually end up in the hands of children, as is supposedly the intent? But then, it could be a great achievement and benefit regardless.

[airbornflght]

except if these make it to nigeria, we will have just shipped one million mobile spam machines there.