Originally called the $100 laptop project, it came in at just under $200 each, but still a bargain when you consider all the technology involved in making something like this.
In 2002, MIT Professor Nicholas Negroponte experienced first-hand how connected laptops transformed the lives of children and their families in a remote Cambodian village. A seed was planted: If every child in the world had access to a computer, what potential could be unlocked? What problems could be solved? These questions eventually led to the foundation of One Laptop per Child, and the creation of the XO laptop.
The deal is this: you buy 2 laptops for a total of $400 and they donate one laptop to a child and send you the other one. Pretty cool, huh? This seems like a great cause to me. Here is a link to the site if you are so inclined to help out.
-Dave
