Africa's Inexpensive Laptops
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African countries are bracing themselves for this month's rollout of US$150, Linux-based laptops for school children under the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative.
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Greeted with fanfare and kudos when its prototype PC was shown off by Nicholas Negroponte and United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan more than two years ago at the World Symposium on the Information Society in Tunis, the One Laptop Per Child project is now beset by waning orders and competition from commercial vendors that threaten to sideline the nonprofit effort.
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Intel VP Sean Maloney discusses low-cost computers for classrooms in developing countries and the digital divide.
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A Chinese PC maker has introduced a low-cost PC designed for users in rural China.
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Little, cheap and sturdy, laptops designed to bring technology to the children of developing countries are rolling out after years of promises. But don't expect them to do much for high-tech kids in the U.S.
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Intel and the One Laptop Per Child had a rocky relationship from the start in their short-lived effort to get inexpensive laptops into the hands of the worldâs poorest children.
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A sleek home-media PC looks creamy delicious; a carry bag becomes a chair storing laptop; and more. By Brian Lam from Wired magazine.
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Nicholas Negroponte thinks everyone in the world should have a computer. His nonprofit OLPC wants to build and distribute the world's most-affordable laptop, priced at less than $100 and aimed at youngsters in the developing world.
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Advanced Micro Devices has unveiled a stripped-down, low-cost computing device as part of a plan to move into developing markets. The chip maker aims to provide 50 per cent of the world with internet and computing
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A computer developed for poor children around the world, dubbed 'the $100 laptop,' has reached a milestone: Its price tag is now $200.
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The open-source computer is inexpensive and actually looks good.
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Colorful, lighweight Inspiron consumer notebooks use flash memory instead of hard drives.
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Intel Corp  and Microsoft Corp   are supplying Libya's government with 150,000 rugged  laptop computers that cost $200 to build and are designed to  meet the needs of children in developing countries.
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Acerâs TravelMate 2480-2779 laptop costs about $550 and runs Vista without complaint.
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U.S. chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc.  has introduced a low-cost Internet access device that could cost just a few hundred dollars, aimed at first-time technology users in the developing world.
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Notebook PC makers are stretching the boundaries of light-weight and low-cost computing.
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In which our correspondent endures great travail in search of a sub-$300 laptop. In Gear Factor.