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$100 Laptop: Get Your Own!


On November 12, you'll be able to buy your own "$100" laptop... for $399. Why the price? Because you're actually buying two laptops: one for you, and one for a child in a developing country. The scheme, called G1G1 (give one get one) has been launched by the One Laptop Per Child organization and reflects the current price of $188 per machine. The hope is still to get the cost down to $100.

You don't get much for your $399 - 1GB of Flash memory, 3 USB 2.0 ports, 802.11b/g /s wireless LAN, a MMC/SD card slot, 256 MB DRAM and a dual mode 7.5" TFT LCD display. But you're hardly buying the features here: it's mainly about the gift. As of November 12, you'll be able to buy the laptops at, and the first 25,000 buyers will get them by the end of the year.

[via BBC, Image credit: Fuse-Project]

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