How Much Does a $75 Laptop from OLPC’s CTO Cost?
OLPC’s CTO left OLPC to create a new for-profit company with an initial goal of creating a $75 commercial laptop that uses many of the same technologies that the XO laptop uses, according to Slashdot. Here is a question for you:
How Much Does a $75 Laptop from OLPC’s CTO Cost?
If history really does repete itself, the answer is not $75, but $150. Frankly, it seems highly implausable that after the OLPC project failed to make a $100 laptop, the OLPC CTO thinks she can make a $75 dollar laptop.
Although that is perhaps the funniest part of this story, there is a real story here.
Although OLPC tried selling XOs here in the US, they don’t seem interested in selling the XOs to people in developed countries. (This really shows that they are about the children who they are helping, not the money they could be making.) This is where this new company, Pixel Qi, comes in. Pixel Qi intends to bring a $75 (or $150) laptop to the market in developed countries that will incorperate many of the innovations of the XO, such as the sunlight-readable screens. It will be interesting to see what this company produces. (My guess is still a $150 laptop. :-))
