The One Laptop Per Child Foundation kicked off mass production of its long-awaited XO laptops today. The Quanta Computer manufacturing plant in will produce 15,000 XO laptops per week. This photo shows the first XO laptop to roll off the production line. 
T-Mobile is sweetening the deal for people who participate in the One Laptop Per Child Foundation's Give One Get one program. Those who donate $399 will receive a laptop and one year of complimentary service T-Mobile HotSpot access. 
Many of those hoping to get their hands on an OLPC XO laptop by Christmas wil have to wait. The One Laptop Per Child Foundation is having some last minute production bugs and production won't start until November 12. 
The One Laptop Per Child Foundation announced the Give 1 Get 1 Program. You'll soon be able to order an XO laptop for your own child and one for a child in a developing nation for $399. 
The One Laptop Per Child project's "$100 laptop" is edging closer to $200 as component prices rise and specs are improved. According to recent reports, if the the OLPC laptop were to ship today the average cost would be around $188. 
The One Laptop Per Child Foundation, the non-profit bringing mobile computers to developing nations, may begin selling the low-cost XO laptop to consumers by Christmas this year. The XO laptop may sell for as low as $35o, or twice its production. The program will act as a fund raiser so more students can receive their first computers. Intel is now supporting the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, after some very public bitterness. OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte previously accused Intel of trying to squash his groups progress in delivering $100 laptops to children in developing countries, but is signing a much different tune as Intel joins the OLPC board. The One Laptop Per Child project expects unit prices of its notebooks for children in emerging markets to drop to $50 by 2009.
The project’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. 
In this video, MIT professor and One Laptop Per Child founder Nicholas Negroponte's spends about 90% of his time traveling around the globe to promote the $100 laptop project. He appeared on 60 Minutes to talk about the project's progress and what he calls unfair competition from Intel. 
The One Laptop Per Child project deployed dozens of its computers at a school in Nigeria in an effort to bridge the digital divide.