Watch out, kid. OLPC is gunning for you.
Wait a minute, people. I know babies need their laptops, but the OLPC program is charging $24.95 for shipping. In fact, ZDNet blogger Larry Dignan got “hit” with the shipping charge, leading to mass hysteria over at the old Dignan house while daddy Dignan raged through the basement looking for his hidden whiskey and meth while Mrs. Dignan and the kids hid in a closet upstairs. The absolute nerve of some people, charging $24.95 for two $200 laptops, one of which goes to needy kids overseas. I’ll tell you what: let’s boycott those snakes and crooks over at OLPC and make our own Windows-based OLPC called the VUOLPCPCH2KBRATWGFS (Vista Ultimate One Laptop Per Child Provided that Child Has $2000 But Rest Assured They Will Get Free Shipping). That’ll stick it to those dirtbags.
Call me weird but I think $25 for shipping is pretty damned cheap. $12 to ship mine and $12 to ship the kids machine? not bad.
My problem is the price. If I was rich sure fine but I am not I NEED something for that money. Something more valuable that what I can get elsewhere. I can buy a pretty nice 15″ screen dvd burning gig ram laptop with 100 gig HD for $350
At $99 a pop $200 for a pair its worth it to me. I get a neat new toy to mess with and I get to help out some kid somwehere in the world at a price I can afford.
I can not afford that $350 laptop how am I going to afford $200 times 2 for this machine?
If they can get it down to the original $99 target price and then offer a 2for1 (buy 2 get one) then I would be all over it. I would FIND the money somehow.