The "$100 Laptop", One Laptop Per Child: Give 1 Get 1 Starting November 12

The mission is no small one: to provide two billion children in developing countries a way to learn, express themselves and explore the world on a 7.5 inch laptop screen - and build the XO laptop at a cost of $100 each. The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) program, founded by Nicholas Negroponte from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), drew skepticism from the technology community, saying it could not be done. Intel passed the $100 XO laptop off as a gadget and tried to derail the OLPC mission by launching its Classmate laptop.

At first, the $100 XO laptops were only going to be available to children with little or no access to education in developing countries. But Negroponte announced on the OLPC website that beginning November 12, you can "Give 1 Get 1" for a brief time period. The price of the laptop is $200, and from all test runs in both the United States and developing countries, kids love it and are learning.

A donation of $200 will send an XO laptop to a child in a developing nation. A donation of $400 will get one XO laptop for YOUR child and one XO laptop donated to a child in a developing nation. After you read what makes the XO laptop a technology marvel, you may want to add this to your list of Christmas presents this year.

The History of the "$100 XO Laptop"

In 2005, Negroponte debuted his marvel "$100 XO laptop", dubbed the "green machine", at the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan viewed a prototype of the robust XO laptop as an "expression of global solidarity." The OLPC $100 laptop project also drew support from media mogul Rupert Murdoch.

In July 2007, Intel had a change of heart and joined the OLPC mission along with 11 other companies including Google, Red Hat and AMD. Finally, the XO laptop marvel machine was finished - an amazing technology accomplishment on many levels. Both the XO laptop and the Classmate have compatible applications, what will run on one will run on the other.

Why is the "$100 XO Laptop" a Marvel Machine?