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Cheap PCs for kids spinoff
Posted by: Justina Spencer
 
CREATING a scheme to supply Third World schoolchildren with free laptops sounds like a philanthropic no-brainer, but Nicholas Negroponte earned the scorn of the entrenched PC industry with his One Laptop per Child program.

The cheap-to-make, rugged, low-power X0-1 laptop that came out of Negroponte's efforts ruffled the feathers of everyone from former Intel chairman Craig Barrett to Dell supremo Michael Dell.
 
Source: News.com.au (AUS) | Published: July 30th, 2009


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