Rollup PC was a "No-No"

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 10:25:40AM -0400, Scott Sullivan wrote:
> If they actually manage to ship it, great. But it's been a while since
> it was announced. They also have to hit rather high volumes to bring the
> price that low, something they aren't doing yet.
> 
> With the One Laptop Per Child XO, many do regret the $100 moniker of it.
> It was a worthy goal price, and at an average production cost $150 they
> came far closer then most anyone else. But people still hold them to the
> $100 as if they failed.
> 
> The now over a Million Kids who's lives have been improved by the
> existence of the projects surrounding his platform certainly don't care.
> It's already bought them better futures.

Have they been improved?

What if the money spent buying them had been spent on something else to
improve education in those areas?

The OLPC project has always looked like some clueless idiot with money in
the west trying to solve a problem he doesn't understand using technology
he thinks he understands, but doesn't understand how could even be useful
without the other parts of society around him.

What good is a computer unless you have the infrastructure around it,
with teachers that know how to use it and teach with it, and people to
service them (although a few places the kids seem to have taken that
upon themselves).

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Len Sorensen
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