| Cheap PCs for kids spinoff |
| Posted by: Justina Spencer |
| CREATING a scheme to supply Third World schoolchildren with free laptops sounds like a philanthropic no-brainer, but Nicholas Negroponte earned the scorn of the entrenched PC industry with his One Laptop per Child program. The cheap-to-make, rugged, low-power X0-1 laptop that came out of Negroponte's efforts ruffled the feathers of everyone from former Intel chairman Craig Barrett to Dell supremo Michael Dell. |
| Source: News.com.au (AUS) | Published: July 30th, 2009 |
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