Talk:Individual sale?

Mr. Negroponte told me at Linux World Boston that there is a web page co-ordinating an effort to set something up for people who want to sponsor purchase of machines for the third world by buying machines at an artificially high price. I will attempt to retrieve the information and link it here. --Charlie

how many commercials versions ?

I may assume for USA $300 would be an ultra-chip model. Not for me in Russia.

I would surely purchase such a unit in Russia for $100-$150. I would think twice about $200. I would certainly ignore it for $300 - this is price for 2nd hand notebook. The onlky hardware change is to add usual dial-up modem. Perhaps removing card-reader to keep the same price/size.

To me this is laptop that i would not be too afraid of beeing stolen/broken. That i can take with me to any travel.

Raising the price above $150 to me is entering value ("value" is not money here) area of notebooks - and here OLPC instantly loose - it obviously has less value than a notebook. And i'd just don't need notebook for, say, travels - i would be afraid of loosing/breaking it. It would became cheap slow notebook and would not be OLPC any more

Though such a price may shrink margins so it will not be funding of OLPC project by such a retail version.