Libya to Purchase 1.2 Million Cheap Laptops

Libya seems to have made a deal with Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) for the purchase of 1.2 million laptops to equip it’s school kids. These are specially design $100 wind-up laptops. The cost is estimated to be $250 million and the delivery will be made by mid 2008. The machines will be manufacture by Taiwan’s hardware manufacturer Qanta. And the production is reported to start early 2007. With this deal Libya could be the first country to provide all school kids a laptop with internet connection.

Other countries which are showing interest in the $100 laptops are Argentina, Brazil and Thailand. India has withdrawn from the idea after talks stating that it needs schools and teachers more than such tools.



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