One of the hopes was to provide economies of scale. Reducing price through volumes that were expected to be ordered. The orders have not been as great as hoped, and few details of the orders have been disclosed.
Wayan Volta, an expert on using technology to promote economic development, said the original $100 price tag was unrealistic, and the low figure has damaged the credibility of the development.
I was thinking, and it is no doubt happening to a point, that with the short life span of a laptop and P.C.s in the west, purely through the introduction of a more advanced model, there would be great scope for the scrubbing and recycling of laptops, as opposed to them becoming toxic waste. They could use linux.