First review of the 100 dollar laptop line Linux interface

While many analysts are busy focusing on gaming software such as Sony's PS3 or Nintendo's Wii, many others pay attention to the first $ 100 laptop batch. This product line was released in Shanghai (Shanghai, China) under the "One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)" program by Nicholas Negroponte and MIT Media Lab office.

These machines use the OLPC user interface on Linux platforms.

Many reviews have been posted on the Internet, including changes in the physical design of this model. Such as removing the on-board handwheel (built-in on the motherboard) has a high price to create cheap power supplies, lime green laptops. This component is still there, but switched to using a power adapter.

However, the OLPC product line offered earlier this week in Shanghai still needs to be tested. Because children are hyperactive, they can hit the table, get down into the mud. Sometimes they even consider computers as balls to kick. So " we have to test, test and test these machines under the most extreme conditions such as extreme cold, extreme heat, mud, dust and the daily effects of children, " Negroponte said in one. interview of the International Herald Tribune magazine.

If these tests are overcome, these laptops will be delivered to other places such as Brazil, Argentina, Nigeria, Thailand and Libya. In Libya alone, an agreement to provide computers and facilities support for 1.2 million children was signed. The deal is worth $ 250 million.

That means that each laptop will cost $ 208.33 / phone.

OLPC supporters hope the price for this type of laptop will drop to just $ 100 in some places in 2008, 2010. Taiwan's Quanta Computer computer maker will be the main manufacturer.