via Gizmodo


For the first time, Europeans will be able to buy the innovative X0-1 laptop by the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) charity scheme, starting tomorrow.

We all know the device costs nearly double than the original $100 target and shoppers here will be able to get a pair for around £268. Why a pair?

That's what people from the 27 EU nations and a couple of non-EU countries will be asked to pay under the Give One, Get One (G1G1) scheme. The idea is that you buy two laptops, one for you and another which will be donated to a child that needs it in a developing nation.

The OLPC scheme had hoped to sell millions of these cheap laptops to governments but it has hit one problem after another - not least of which is Intel's rival Classmate laptop, which sells lots mote.

The OLPC shacked up with Amazon last September to overcome delivery problems it was having getting the XO-1 to G1G1 customers. Amazon's European operations will be handling the launch today. The X0-1 on offer will be the Linux model.