"$100" OLPC XO-1 to cost at least $188, over $200 in Uruguay

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scott @ Sep 15th 2007 6:03PM

Why the hell is the price of technology going up in this instance? Tech is supposed to decrease in cost over time, especially with mass production.

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It was never actually 100 dollars to begin with. They set out to make a marketable $100 laptop, but came to the conclusion that they could not do anything with that price point, so they upped it to this. It's not a matter of it becoming more expensive, but being more realistic. With time, the price will come back down again, but that hasn't happened yet.

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wayan @ Sep 16th 2007 10:09AM

I think the reason we're seeing the XO price increase is the lack of government orders to date reducing the number of computers Quanta is willing to make on spec. They're even delaying production again! http://www.olpcnews.com/hardware/production/xo_laptop_production_delay.html

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