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Date Added: August 11, 2008 06:40:03 PM
It's all over the news and opinion blogs this week: The fabled $100 laptop. Whatever happened to the thing? And will it ever reach that magic price point? It all began with the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, which aimed to put little, green, $100 notebooks in the hands of third world children around the globe. OLPC got off to a promising start in 2005, with laptops originally priced ...

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