Comments on: ‘Saying no to School Laptops’: Lessons for OLPC? http://www.teleread.org/2006/09/01/saying-no-to-school-laptops-lessons-for-olpc/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:58:45 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Branko Collin http://www.teleread.org/2006/09/01/saying-no-to-school-laptops-lessons-for-olpc/comment-page-1/#comment-79733 Branko Collin Sat, 02 Sep 2006 01:26:00 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=5419#comment-79733 There is apparently a trade-off for school laptops: constant access vs. price. But that is a trade-off in the US; the price for the OLPC laptop is paid by the participating countries, not by the parents. That's not to say the OLPC won't have to juggle many other trade-offs, but it probably won't be this one. There is apparently a trade-off for school laptops: constant access vs. price. But that is a trade-off in the US; the price for the OLPC laptop is paid by the participating countries, not by the parents.

That’s not to say the OLPC won’t have to juggle many other trade-offs, but it probably won’t be this one.

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