OLPC XO-1 Laptop: more expensive in UK
Filed under: Computers, Laptops | By: Peter Chubb
Posted on: November 15, 2008 | 7 Comments
The One Laptop Per Child will now be available in the UK, like all things that hit the UK market; the OLPC XO-1 Laptop will be more expensive. The new device will be available from Monday in the UK and consumers will be able to purchase the laptop from Amazon.co.uk.
The OLPC XO-1 will sell for £268, that’s more than the $188 price that U.S. consumers paid. This shows that rip off Britain still have not changed their ways. The One Laptop Per Child organization is a great way for under privileged children to be able to get their hands on a laptop.
For every OLPC XO-1 Laptop sold, the OLPC organization will donate another unit to a school from a developing nation. 650,000 units of the XO model have now been sold, and the OLPC organization hopes to be able to sell 190,000 in the UK.
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Wow! It looks like OLPC has missed their targeted price point at 268 British pounds. I have the Acer Aspire One and it performs flawlessly and for a lot less than 268 quid too!
The price is for two laptops, not one. One of them goes to you (the donor) and the other goes to a developing nation (last year’s US promotion resulted in tens of thousands of laptops going to places including Ethiopia, Rwanda and Mongolia).
This is the same scheme as the US promotion launching on the same day which costs $399 to Give One and Get One.
It is a charitable effort; by participating you are making a donation, it’s not just about buying a computer for yourself.
Hi Daniel,
Thanks for clarifying. In that light, I won’t mind paying about $400 bucks for a laptop that I would probably just give away too, now knowing that when I buy an OLPC laptop, they are going to donate a laptop also. The marketing here in the States, is a bit confusing at times, starting with me. Thank you for the clarification.
Yes may still be a charitable effort but how can the price double when it comes to the UK with no word on the amount of laptops being given away going up too. that is a rip off
It’s not double. According to xe.com/ucc, $399 is currently £264, and the G1G1 offer is close to that at £275.
According to xe.com £268 is $405 which is more than double the $188 that the US consumers paid.
US consumers pay $399 to Give One and Get One, or $199 to just make a donation of a laptop (”Give One”). See http://laptop.org/xo
The $188 figure you are referring to is the figure often given by the media as the manufacturing cost of the laptops — the cost that *countries* buy them as, when they buy them in huge quantities. US *consumers* have so far not been able to purchase them at that price.