OLPC Computers Price Still Rising

I guess its just the high price of good intentions. Yeah right. I call it the price of failure. They haven’t even begun to crank out the crank-up computers and the costs are still rising, now to 188 dollars each. The device was originally supposed to cost only a Benjamin.

Even if they get them working, I can guarantee that no one will come up with a viable education system that will use the devices, nor will there be any support to keep them running. And as written previously, kids just use it to download porn.

From the AP here:

The vaunted “$100 laptop” that Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers dreamed up for international schoolchildren is becoming a slightly more distant concept.

Leaders of the nonprofit One Laptop Per Child that was spun out of MIT acknowledged Friday that the devices are now slated to cost $188 when mass production begins this fall. The last price the nonprofit announced was $176; it described $100 as a long-term goal.

Spokesman George Snell blamed the increase on a variety of factors, including currency fluctuations and rising costs of such components as nickel and silicon. He said the project was committed to keeping the price from rising above $190.

I thought silicon was just sand? Oh well, while they waste money on these stupid devices, the children in the countries they want to help keep dropping dead from malaria. More at the OLPC blog.