One Laptop Per Child

Anyone see the story on the news about this site?

LINK

Company donates laptop computers to developing nation children who learn how to use the laptop and the kids get to take the computer home and share with their parents.

Well on Nov 12th they are offering a Get 1 Give 1 program where for 399 you can buy a laptop for a child and a child of yours..one goes for the organization and one is shipped to you.

I am considering it but my kiddo is a computer snob and I am not sure she would accept this computer versus my old POS Dell Inspiron..haha

I was impressed with the cause and the good it does for kids though...

Lippsman,

I watched the 60 minutes piece (I think it was 60 min...or Dateline) and the thing has satellite internet, anywhere in the world..very durable and seems to do the basic stuff..not sure how well it would work with high graphic needs or heavy processing though..

So do you think this is a joke and would be somthing regular computer users would dislike?

Yeah..thats what I was meaning, bad implying there by me.

I was meaning if my kid who is a computer snob would have a tough time with it..

The price did start out at $100, but that was way unrealistic.  It's now $188 with the other $12 being used for shipping and other things.