$100 laptop’ production begins

The One Laptop Per Child project is one step closer to releasing the completed machine to millions of schoolchildren in the developing world.

Hardware suppliers have been given the greenlight to start production of the “$100 laptop”.

Previously, the organisation behind the scheme said that it required orders for 3m laptops to make production viable.

The first machines should be ready to put into the hands of children in developing countries in October 2007.
“There’s still some software to write, but this is a big step for us,” Walter Bender, head of software development at One Laptop per Child (OLPC), told the BBC News website.

The Cheap Laptop may soon be available to the public, with an initial idea of the public having to buy two. One for them and one which will go to the developing world.