My Way News - '$100 Laptop' to Cost $175

My Way News - '$100 Laptop' to Cost $175: "CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - The founder of the ambitious '$100 laptop' project, which plans to give inexpensive computers to schoolchildren in developing countries, revealed Thursday that the machine for now costs $175, and it will be able to run Windows in addition to its homegrown, open-source interface. Nicholas Negroponte, the former director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab who now heads the nonprofit One Laptop Per Child project, updated analysts and journalists on where the effort stands, saying 'we are perhaps at the most critical stage of OLPC's life.' That's partly because at least seven nations have committed to being in the initial wave to buy the little green-and-white 'XO' computers - Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil, Pakistan, Thailand, Nigeria and Libya - but it remains unclear which ones will be first to pony up the cash. The project needs orders for 3 million machines so its manufacturing and distribution effort can get rolling."