One Laptop Per Child: The $100 Laptop Video (4min 1sec). David Pogue reviews the amazing $100 laptop. "It's the famed one hundred dollar laptop, now called the XO Laptop. The company behind this is called One Laptop Per Child.
"The idea behind this is to make it so inexpensive that poor countries can afford to buy them for their students, their educationally deprived students, in the hundreds of thousands or the millions.
"But what's interesting is that they're actually going to sell this thing to Americans for two weeks starting November 12th. To me that makes it fair game for a review.
"Well, first of all, I've got to say that for it's mission, it's pretty amazing. Game controller, stereo speakers, built in camcorder..."
"As you may have heard, the one hundred dollar laptop did not in fact come in a a price of one hundred dollars. It's one hundred eigthy-eight bucks and sinking. If you want to get one you have to order it within that two week November window. You pay $400. It's 'give one, get one'. So you get one and a tax deduction, and the company sends one to a poor kid in another country on your behalf..."
