In line with the goals for this blog and small publishing effort, one laptop has already been donated .The author found the unit very well executed, if a little unfamiliar at first. At the price, it is very full featured and a great tool for education. Its existence is spurring Microsoft and Intel into making concessions for developing countries also.
As sales for the two books associated with this blog mount, more laptops will be donated. It should be noted that the proceeds on each sale are less than 1/10th of the cover price and such obscure topics as Dwapara Yuga and World Cycles are not international best sellers.
More information is available on the XO-1 laptop on Wikipedia.
As of 2/09, India has announced a $20 laptop project, which may render the OLPC redundant.
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