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Give 1 Get 1 for XO Laptops

Do you still remember with the OLPC? Project OLPC (One Laptop per Child) growing, evidenced by the campaign Give One Get One for the children happy with the computer, and then Monday. This announcement is the result of cooperation with the logistics OLPC Web retailers, Amazon.com Inc. With the campaign Give One Get One, the shopper will spend $ 400 to buy a laptop, OLPC XO green and white, plus donations to children in developing countries.

The non-profit company OLPC, which centered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has been selling XO laptops to the government in developing countries, and provide computers to school children. XO laptop has the use of power is lower than the regular PC, and is designed to work on demand, and destined for school children who live in villages or rural areas. Almost all of the XO laptop, working in open source software, but the version of Windows will also be present at the beginning of 2009 the future.

OLPC XO laptop will be sold at prices below $ 100, and approximately 473,000 units XO laptop will be distributed in 31 countries, with nearly 200,000 school children awaiting the arrival XO laptop to their schools. Last year, the campaign Give One Get One OLPC has gotten orders about 160.00 XO laptops in less than two months, and distributed to Rwanda, Ethiopia, Afghanistan and other poor countries.

According to the founder OLPC, Nicholas Negroponte, the program was eventually suspended due to the buyer confusion, because many different vendors those handle many aspects such as ordering and delivery. By working with Amazon, the shopper in the U.S. can order OLPC XO laptop in the U.S. Amazon site, while for countries outside the U.S. will not be served until 2009 the future.