Elonex, a UK-based company, recently announced it’s going to be offering a Linux-based laptop for just under a hundred pounds. They’re calling it the Elonex ONE, and it’s tough not to see it as a dig at MIT’s One Laptop Per Child project.
Initially, the One Laptop Per Child project was aiming to build a simple laptop that could be sold for $100. Unfortunately, this proved a bit too ambitious, and the price is actually closer to $200. Also, the laptops build were intended just for kids from under-developed countries, and unavailable to us first worlders. I can get behind that, but the XO (the official name of the laptops) is such a fun-looking gadget, I can’t help but want to get my hands on one. I’m not the only one who feels that way, and the OLPC foundation tapped into that sentiment by offering to let us wealthy yanks buy one for $400. The $400 pays for a laptop for us, and pays for a second XO to be donated to someone somewhere else who could never afford it. Continue reading →
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