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Greg Ponesse
The New Laptop and for only $100
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The $100 laptops planned for children around the world might turn out to be as revolutionary for their security measures as for their low-cost economics.
The One Laptop Per Child project, a nonprofit begun at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, aims to improve education by giving children bright-colored, hand-cranked, wireless-enabled portable computers. Governments are to buy the laptops _ beginning in 2007 with up to 7 million machines in Thailand, Nigeria, Brazil and Argentina _ and hand them to kids for them to own.
The machines have garnered the most attention _ and some skepticism _ for the design elements helping to keep their price low. Among other things, the computers will employ the free Linux operating system, flash memory instead of a hard drive and a microprocessor that is slow by today's standards but requires minimal power.
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