"One Lap Top Per child" Beta Shows up in Capetown

The much talked about One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), a low-cost laptop computer for the developing world, was finally on show at the Digital Freedom Expo in Cape Town this week. The project is the brainchild of MIT media professor Nicholas Negroponte.

The laptop, a beta version of the final product, sports a green casing, a liquid-proof keyboard, a couple of dust covers for the ports and the Sugar operating system which is based on Fedora Core 6. While the design on show looks a little fragile the plastic used for the casing is in fact thicker than that used in most other notebooks.

There is also a plan to include a rubberised design in the near future. The final OLPC is expected to cost around R750 (the exchange rate for US$100) when it is launched.

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