http://www.matthewjwhite.co.uk/blog/2006/09/25/700-macbooks-for-a-school/ Musings of an IT professional Sat, 29 Oct 2011 13:31:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://www.matthewjwhite.co.uk/blog/2006/09/25/700-macbooks-for-a-school/comment-page-1/#comment-334 Wibble’s Blog » Blog Archive » 1,200,000 laptop sale - cheap compared to YouTube Wed, 11 Oct 2006 20:20:52 +0000 http://www.matthewjwhite.co.uk/blog/2006/09/25/700-macbooks-for-a-school/#comment-334 [...] Recently I reported on the school that bought 700 macbooks for children to use. The Libyan government has gone one better and decided that the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) foundation was worth the investment and have placed an order for a laptop per school child currently in the system as well as a server for each of the schools in the country. All in all this comes to a spend of  £135,000,000 which will help OLPC to develop orders with other countries around the world. [...] [...] Recently I reported on the school that bought 700 macbooks for children to use. The Libyan government has gone one better and decided that the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) foundation was worth the investment and have placed an order for a laptop per school child currently in the system as well as a server for each of the schools in the country. All in all this comes to a spend of  £135,000,000 which will help OLPC to develop orders with other countries around the world. [...]

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