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

BuddyJ

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.

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. 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.