One Laptop Per Child to Drop Price to $50

One Laptop Per ChildThe One Laptop Per Child project expects unit prices of its notebooks for children in emerging markets to drop to $50 by 2009.

The projectâ€â„¢s CTO, Mary Lou Jepsen says one million OLPC notebooks will ship per month by the end of 2007. Things are expected to accellerate quickly and 150 million OLPC notebooks will ship by the end of 2008.

A low power display and WiMax are both a possibility for the second generation of OLPC notebooks.

via Digitimes

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