More Production Delays for OLPC Laptops
October 24, 2007 at 05:10:00 AM, by Sourabh Kalantri
The low-cost laptop for students in the developing countries could face some serious shortage soon.
The $188 laptop, popularly known as XO, was scheduled to go in to mass production at a Chinese factory sometime this month.
What OLPC (One Laptop per Child) Foundation calls "last-minute" bugs, have delayed the mass production. These laptops are now slated to enter mass production stage from November 12.
OLPC Foundation plans to produce 100,000 laptops by the end of this year. An October launch would have given the group time to produce and ship tens of thousands of laptops to Peru and Uruguay, the first two countries to order these laptops.
It would now be tough to get those laptops to South America by December, in time for kids to use them over their summer vacation, and also meet orders for the foundation's Give 1 Get 1 scheme for people in the United States and Canada.
Orders will be accepted from their website http://www.laptopgiving.org/ starting from November 12.
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