OLPC, One Laptop Per Child, is an organization trying to reach out to the developing countries by helping them educate their children by selling them computers. The project started with a dream of creating a $100 laptop, which would be affordable for most countries and governments and even if the current price is closer to $130 it’s still a lot cheaper than regular PCs. Quanta Computer that manufactures the OLPC has now announced that it has received orders for over 1 million laptops, which really shows that it is on the right track. The plans for the year is even bigger with seven nations signing up for the project.
It hopes to ship between 5 and 10 million units in 2007 and this could make it possible for the manufacturers to lower production costs and perhaps even reach the initial goal of $100.
“The governments that have committed to buy laptops for their schoolchildren include Argentina, Brazil, Libya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Thailand and Uruguay.”
