2007_01_01_archive

Cheap laptops for Third World schoolchildren - CNN.com

Cheap laptops for Third World schoolchildren - CNN.com: "CAMBRIDGE,

Massachusetts (AP) -- Forget windows, folders and boxes that pop up

with text. When students in Thailand, Libya and other developing

countries get their $150 computers from the One Laptop Per Child

project in 2007, their experience will be unlike anything on standard

PCs.

For most of these children the XO machine, as it's called, likely will

be the first computer they've ever used. Because the students have no