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#Ok, let's have look.
#So, 1 XO laptop = about 162.60 €.
#An XO laptop lasts for 7 years.  162.60€/7 years= 23,23 €/yr= 1,94€/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.
# But let us continue and suppose there are 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!

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