Price of MIT professor's '$100 laptop' hits $200
A computer developed for poor children around the world, dubbed 'the $100 laptop,' has reached a milestone: Its price tag is now $200.
The One Laptop per Child Foundation, founded by MIT Professor Nicholas Negroponte, has started offering the lime-green-and-white machines in lots of 10,000 for $200 apiece on its Web site (http://laptopfoundation.org/participate/givemany.shtml).
Two weeks ago, a foundation executive confirmed recent estimates that the computer would cost $188, which was already higher than the $150 price tag in February and $176 in April.
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Eventually this will lose it's economic value, that it becomes economically cheaper to buy a regular expensive laptop. I don't even think it is worth $200 at moment at least from the following screenshot http://www.laptop.org/en/img/specs_dimensions.jpg
Let's hope it doesn't get more expensive than $200.