Niue Becomes First Country to Give One Laptop to Every Child

[JMcEntegart]

Niue has become the first nation to dish out one of the OLPC’s XO laptops to every school child in the country.

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[Pei-chen]

Let me guess, Taiwan paid for the 500 OLPC.

 

[Savant]

I'll grant you that the EEE PC has ROUGHLY the same capabilities for twice the price but the article completely ignores the fact that the OLPC laptop is expressly designed to function in environments and conditions which would kill an EEE PC or ANY similar cost notebook with days if not hours. It not only survives things that would have a Panasonic Toughbook flinching but it also does it with two other advantages... the first is that the OLPC notebook comes with a wide range of educational software aimed at taking a novice through basic computer familiarity, basic programming, and so forth... the second advantage lies in the environments it is designed to function in... those environments generally are harsh, have limited or no electricity, and have limited (if any) network/internet connectivity. Were the OLPC designed around a reference like that used for the EEE PC (a living room or Starbucks hotspot as the primary location for use) the OLPC would most likely cost less than $100. So think about that before you make a comment about how the EEE PC achieves the same as the OLPC for twice the price.