Quanta Announces $100 Laptops
The world’s largest manufacturer of laptop PC’s, Taiwan’s Quanta, will manufacture an ultra-low-cost laptop developed by Nicolas Negroponte, the chairman of Massachusetts Institute of technology’s Media Lab. Barry Lam, Quanta founder and chairman, said:
“Quanta would like to contribute its industry-leading laptop technologies to the future success of the project, in hope of affording children worldwide with opportunities not only to close the ‘digital divide,’ but also to bridge the ‘knowledge divide.’ This project signifies a new stage and scale for the laptop industry by including those children never before considered to be laptop users.”
The laptops will be sold to governments and issued to children by schools on a basis of one laptop per child.
December 14, 2005 - Category: Tech - Posted by: Chantal - Comments: 0