Remember the $100 laptop that was developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to save children worldwide from a Minesweeper-deficiency? Well, now the famed "$100 laptop" costs $190 — sorry, kids, looks like you’ll be carving your essays in rock like you used too.
The heads of the nonprofit One Laptop Per Child program — who head the project — have announced that if mass production was to begin now, the laptops would cost $188 dollars. The actual production is slated to start in the fall. The company stated, over the cries of saddened children, that rising costs of nickel and silicon have forced prices to go up.
Yes, it’s almost at $200 now, but are we really complaining about a laptop that costs that little? We should applaud the program’s efforts, and it’s obvious their efforts are paying off as they have commitments for at least 3 million of its "XO" computers.
By the way, for those of you wondering, the laptops will feature an open-source interface, a sunlight-readable display, extremely low power consumption, built-in wireless networking, and a pull-cord for recharging it by hand. Mm, delicious, environmentally-feasible cheap laptop. We like.
Now if only they were edible, maybe even more countries would buy some.
