Anyways, double price , half going to charity, not yet though. There first giving some to third world countries. Currently costing 150$ each instead of 100$, so googles helping. Search if you need to.

lmao, I heard it's gonna be a lot more than $150 stateside. More like around $300, at least in recent news anyway.

Isn't Acer making a $250 or $200 laptop anyways?

However, I saw a demo of the OLPC at the Linuxfest in May. It was pretty cool.

I believe its Asus that is makiung the $200 laptop

wait what IS teh olpc? is that the one thats like crank to turn on or something?

They had to remove the crank, as it put too much torque on the case. But thats the one. http://laptop.org

so how do they power it?

oh wait got it

OLPC = One Laptop per Child

It's a fairly interesting design, and a fairly low price. It's very innovative.

They're now on sale. You can still buy one from now til December 31st. If you buy one starting now it will come simetime february/march 2008:

http://www.laptopgiving.org

I ordered one a while ago. My reasoning was this: its a WIFI enabled laptop which converts to an ebook reader. It has EXCELLENT battery life: ~6 hours+ with color screen and constant usage, 10+ hours with monochrome screen/reading. Its also incredibly rugged: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBoghPvyhts

You can splash water on it, drop it in the dirt and brush it off and it will still work.

A tablet/laptop thin client thats rugged at $400 was too damn tempting.

And the fact that I'm also giving one to a child in a third world country!