Update from Projects: Low-cost laptop deals heat up.

Low-cost laptop deals heat up. Intel, OLPC supply special computers to students in developing nations. eSchool News staff and wire service reports. eSchool News. Online November 2007. …Within hours of the news that Uruguay had become the first nation to buy (100,000) XO laptops from … (OLPC) … Intel Corp. countered by unveiling deals with two African nations to purchase its Classmate PCs. … OLPC's … "$100 laptop," … costs nearly $200. Intel and Microsoft … are supplying Libya's government with 150,000 Classmate PCs … cost about $200 to build. …