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but not anyone's OK with spending $1250 upfront if you earn $250 a month in a developing country, $1250 is like 9-month pay (* calculation may be wrong --- got
by McMiniBurger 5y ago
but not anyone's OK with spending $1250 upfront
if you earn $250 a month in a developing country, $1250 is like 9-month pay (* calculation may be wrong --- gotta sleep?)
- tinco 5y agoSure, but it is just an extreme example of the TCO of the OLPC being comparable to a high end professional grade laptop. It was just a very hard problem to solve, and the technology was not quite there yet. Definitely not suggesting kids in Africa should just buy macbook pro's, but $100 is also a lot of upfront cost for a product that's actually not that useful and destined for the wastebin within a year or two. I do hope I'm wrong and it brought some cool technology too some kids far removed from the big cities.