One Laptop Per Child program is in production
Categories: High Tech / November 8, 2007Well it looks like the One Laptop per Child program originally founded by Nicholas Negroponte is starting to take shape. The program hopes to spread the sub-$200 computers to schoolchildren in developing countries.
The nonprofit spin-off from MIT said assembly lines for its “XO” laptops were fired up Tuesday at a Chinese factory run by manufacturer Quanta Computer Inc. That means children should begin getting the green-and-white computers in the next month or so. Negroponte, said in September that Quanta would build about 250,000 XOs this year, ramping to 1 million a month in 2008.…