Alternative uses of the money spent on an XO
- Ok, let's have look.
- So, 1 XO laptop = about 164€.
- An XO laptop lasts for 7 years. 164€/7 years= 23,42€/yr= 1,95€/month.student.
- can be easily repaired as the XO is made to be repaired: it holds just 1 type of screw, they're all the same and can be opened with a simple small cross-screwdriver. Teachers and kids get a tutorial on how to open and repair their XO's. That's also part of the educational curriculum. How do you best learn how something works? Just open it and have a look what's inside. They can thus also be updated easily.
- Say you have about 10 disciplines:
- reading and writing
- physics,
- biology,
- chemistry,
- math,
- mother language,
- english,
- religion/psychology,
- arts,
- gymnastics/sports,
- history
- geography
- economics/entrepreneurship
- technological/agricultural education
- and you actually want 1 text book and 1 exercise book / discipline, so that would make about 20 books/grade.year. Let's say that every book is about 100 pages? Paper & copy of some text costs about 0.02€/page x 100 pages/book= 2€/book in paper alone x 20 books = 40 €/year.grade.student.20 books. So that's about the double of what the OLPC/XO costs.
- The XO can hold about 1000 ebooks, so space enough for ALL the text and ebooks immediately for all grades from ages 5 till 18. So if we'd put all the 10 text-books on the XO, we'd still have enough money to pay for the 10 exercise books on paper!
Alternative uses of the money spent on an XO
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