Price hike in the cheapest laptop

The US$100 laptop or the XO laptop, as the machine is known, has been developed to be used primarily by children in the developing world. This durable and waterproof laptop can be powered by solar, foot-pump or pull-string powered chargers considering that developing countries may have a problem in energy sources. However, this US$100 should be called the US$200 laptop since the laptop's price has increased to almost about US$188 (the cost of building this machine) recently.

Taiwan Quanta Computer - one of the world's largest contract laptop maker which joined MIT professor-the man behing the OLPC(one laptop per child), said it is ready to mass-produce the $100 latop despite the hike in price to $200.

Isn't technology supposed to help improve our lives and not exploit?