Manufacturer Quantra winner for $100 laptop production

"Taiwan's Quanta, the biggest manufacturer of laptops in the world, has signed on to the $100 laptop project." (hardware.silicon.com)


Negroponte said in a statement: "Any previous doubt that a very-low-cost laptop could be made for education in the developing world has just gone away." (MIT)

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