One Laptop for You, One Laptop for a Child in the Third World

The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project has a special deal over the next two weeks. It’s simple:

Buy an OLPC laptop for a child in the developing world, and you get to buy one for yourself. It costs $400 total, but $200 of that is a charitable donation for the laptop you donate.

You can buy them at LaptopGiving.org, but only for the next 10 days. After that, no laptop for you!

Bill Clementson has a great description of the OLPC laptop. For me, I’m excited about it because it runs Linux, weighs less than four pounds, has a battery life greater than 10 hours, and I’m sure will be hackable to high heaven. I’m excited about the possibility of developing on such a portable, rugged machine.

So if you’re a geek, or want to buy a cheap laptop for your child while buying one for a kid in the third world, head on over to LaptopGiving.orgin the next 10 days and do some good.