One Million Laptop Orders for Needy Children
Quanta Computer Inc., the world's largest contract laptop PC manufacturer, has confirmed orders for one million notebook PCs for the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project.
Quanta is going to manufacture the OLPC laptop, and mass production is the key to make it price lower. The laptops cost around US$130, but the purpose is to whittle down the price to $100.
Quanta could ship between 5 million to 10 million units this year because seven nations have already signed up for the project. That may be enough to reduce the costs and meet the $100 goal sooner than expected.
The governments that have committed to buy laptops for their schoolchildren include Argentina, Brazil, Libya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Thailand and Uruguay.
"OLPC is a nonprofit organization, but Quanta is a contract manufacturer, a for-profit business. We can't not charge a fee for making the laptops," the representative said.
"This is our chairman's pet project, it's his life," said the president of Quanta, Michael Wang, at a company Lunar New Year celebration last week. People across much of East Asia celebrate the Lunar New Year, which falls on Feb. 18.
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