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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Only in America would we criticize giving computers to poor kids.  Meanwhile our best scientists are building them to give out to poor kids in Africa.[/quote]

These are bare essential $100, solar power, waterproof laptops. Why not give them this instead of an ipad?[/quote]

No one "gave" them an iPad.  
And the laptops you refer to cost $200.  
And a 1st Gen ipad goes for 250.
And you can run thousands of free educational apps on an ipad.
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You are correct. It was originally planned to be $100. But I don't think they pay monthly access fees. Here's your chance to make a difference:

The XO-1, previously known as the "$100 Laptop" or "Children's Machine", is an inexpensive laptop computer designed to be distributed to children in developing countries around the world,[22] to provide them with access to knowledge, and opportunities to "explore, experiment and express themselves" (constructionist learning).[23] The laptop is manufactured by the Taiwanese computer company Quanta Computer.

The rugged, low-power computers use flash memory instead of a hard drive, run a Fedora-based operating system and use the Sugar user interface.[24] Mobile ad-hoc networking based on the 802.11s wireless mesh network protocol allows students to collaborate on activities and to share Internet access from one connection. The wireless networking has much greater range than typical consumer laptops. The XO-1 has also been designed to be lower cost and much longer-lived than typical laptops....

The laptops include an anti-theft system which can, optionally, require each laptop to periodically make contact with a server to renew its cryptographic lease token....

An XO-3 concept resembles a tablet computer and is planned to have the inner workings of the XO 1.75.[31] Price goal is below $100 and date is 2012...

As of April 2011, the price remains above $209

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Laptop_per_Child

Give One Get One (G1G1) is an initiative of the One Laptop per Child to increase the distribution of its XO-1 laptop to developing nations by allowing a person to obtain an XO-1 by buying two devices: one for the purchaser and the other being sent to a developing nation.[1] The first program ran from November 2007 to 31 December 2007 and was available to U.S. and Canadian residents only. November 2008 saw the program relaunched[2] until 31 December 2008, extended to residents of EU member states, Switzerland and Russia, and the parliamentary republic of Turkey.[3] No Give One Get One action took place in 2009, 2010, or 2011. Although there has been a Win One Give One through Betty Crocker snacks.

In some jurisdictions part, or all, of the cost of the two laptops may be tax-deductible.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Give_One_Get_One
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/LaptopOLPC_a.jpg/220px-LaptopOLPC_a.jpg[/img][img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Xo3-fuse-4.jpg/220px-Xo3-fuse-4.jpg[/img][/quote]

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