This seems like a very interesting and ambitious goal, but the price seems way off. It looks like the child of a $2000 ToughBook and a few hundred dollars worth

This seems like a very interesting and ambitious goal, but the price seems way off. It looks like the child of a $2000 ToughBook and a few hundred dollars worth of solar cells. Could anyone speculate about the COG? I don't understand why they would position it at $400 anyways, when certain types of customers (those doing aid work, or safaris, or whatever else people from North America and Europe do in remote places) would certainly be willing to splash out a few grand. The founder explicitly says their goal isn't the same as OLPC. You could even rent them to tourists (like those international MiFi companies).