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Nigeria orders 1m OLPC laptops
Journal written by OSTG Marketing (965714) and posted by
OSTG Marketing
on Tue Jul 25, 2006 05:30 PM
The $100 One Laptop per Child (OLPC)' ', powered by an AMD processor, running Linux, received its first order. Nigeria has ordered and paid for one million of the devices. Production of the devices, aimed to provide Linux-powered notebook computers to children in developing economies, will start once 5 to 10 million have been ordered and paid for. "The laptops are designed for children and are ruggedized to allow them to operate in dusty environments. Centred around a central server and internet connection in the school, children will be allowed to go online from home through a mesh network. The laptops will offer some kind of crank to allow for battery recharging away from a power connection."
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An anonymous reader writes "DesktopLinux.com is reporting that four countries have together ordered 4 million low-cost, Linux-based laptops from the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project. The countries of Nigeria, Brazil, Argentina, and Thailand have each placed the 1 million unit orders."
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