The one hundred dollar laptop has broken the $200.00 limit:

“The One Laptop per Child Foundation, founded by MIT Professor Nicholas Negroponte, has started offering the lime-green-and-white machines in lots of 10,000 for $200 apiece on its website (http://laptopfoundation.org/participate/givemany.shtml).”

link: Price tag of ‘$100 laptop’ reaches $200

This places the One Laptop per Child machine in direct competition with traditional notebook makers, who have been developing a low end machine. Two hundred dollars seems to be the common price point. The question is whether this cost has exceed the financial limits of developing nations.

Catherine Forsythe

[tags]one hundred dollar laptop, cost, accessibility[/tags]