Amazon Launches OLPC "Give 1 Get 1" Laptop Drive
Amazon Launches OLPC "Give 1 Get 1" Laptop Drive
Posted 11/18/2008 at 12:35pm
| by Paul Lilly
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One Laptop Per Child's "Give 1 Get 1" program is making a comeback, only this time the OLPC association has teamed with Amazon.com in hopes of ironing out any kinks in the ordering and distribution process. Amazon will start taking order for XO laptops on Monday, November 24 and promises to ship the devices within 30-days, at least in the U.S. Those ordering from the U.K. and elsewhere will be taken from Amazon's U.K. site and will start shipping in the first quarter of next year, or possibly later.
The Give 1 Get 1 program ran for six weeks last year, and in that time managed to sell 160,000 XO laptops. And since more people decided to donate the machine rather than keep one, over 100,000 XO laptops ended up going to school kids in countries like Haiti and Rwanda.
"The phenomenal success of last year's Give 1 Get 1 program created tremendous demand from both the public who wanted to give more and from countries that saw an opportunity to attack poverty through education," said Nicholas Negroponte, founder and chairman of OLPC, in a statement."
The Give 1 Get 1 promotion runs $400, in which one machine goes to a child in a developing country and the other to the donor who placed the order. Alternately, donors can opt to give away as many individual laptops as they want for $200 per XO.
Image Credit: OLPC
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nekollx
November 18, 2008 at 2:03pm
XO specs
http://www.pcworld.com/article/140931/first_look_olpcs_xo_laptop.html
What do you all think is that worth $200?
WindowsXP
November 18, 2008 at 8:21pm
Hey a PC is a PC; id get that for my hypothetical kid as a "starter pc".
Darth Ninja
November 18, 2008 at 1:41pm
I think it kinda is 'the' shittiest netbook out there :P
After all, it does run on a pull string.A nice idea but I think it would be better if Amazon donated an equal share to the 1PC per child thing, in other words, you buy one for yourself or as a donation and amazon donates one on your behalf.
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Talcum X
November 18, 2008 at 1:31pm
You login screen is a picture of Elmo (or Barney if you swing that way) I'm not saying it should look like anything you would pick up at Worst Buy, but please.....
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nekollx
November 18, 2008 at 1:43pm
My Icon?
No its a black panther anthro mage
http://s182.photobucket.com/albums/x202/NekoLLX/?action=view¤t=Ashheadfront.jpg
Talcum X
November 18, 2008 at 1:57pm
Was implying that the welcome screen for the laptop would be of a childrens TV icon...
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Digital-Storm
November 18, 2008 at 1:17pm
Problem with this, is they are not donating them, you are. They are just making double the profit.
nekollx
November 18, 2008 at 1:27pm
no you don't understand.
You spend $400 for /2/ laptops. One they donate, one they ship to you. Or you can just spend $200 to donate one and not get your own. Hell even the crappiest Netbook will set you back $350 so its a steel
Digital-Storm
November 19, 2008 at 6:17am
You obviously didn't understand what I said. If you are buying the laptops, they are not the ones donating them, you are. They are simply selling the computers and making the money from it. So if they can get you to buy 2 of them with their little scheme of "Helping kids in unfortunate countrys". They will, and they will be rolling in the money.
nekollx
November 19, 2008 at 11:06am
no your the one not following if "just donating" a XO cost $200 anf "buy one, send one" cost $400 then when you drop 400 your buing one FOR yourself and one "for the kid in affrica" their not making a extra $200 off you.
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