India Orders 250,000 OLPC Laptops

The Indian government has turned to the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Foundation to order 250,000 XO laptops, after the $10 laptop had turned a catastrophe, which was a direct challenge to the $100 laptop of the OLPC project.

Satish Jha, President and CEO of OLPC India said, The laptops are ordered for 1,500 schools and the deliveries will begin in June.

The One Laptop per Child project ran into problems when large companies, including Intel refused to cooperate.

Intel was a member of the association for a brief period in 2007.

It resigned its membership on 3 January 2008, citing disagreements with requests from OLPC's founder, Nicholas Negroponte, for Intel to stop dumping their Classmate PCs.