One Laptop per Child

1. One Laptop per Child One Laptop per Child Mary Lou Jepsen, Chief Technology Office

2. Hardware Overview • Updates from last time • Prices • Maturity

3. Feedback We want to make the best solution we can Please interrupt this presentation to ask questions Please call or email as often as you can: Mary Lou Jepsen, CTO mlj@laptop.org +1 617 452 5656

4. Since March 8th meeting • 1000 extra B2s made with 256MB DRAM • Same Laptop for 2 years – Gen2 in 2009 • March 30th deadline • Server first heartbeats • Laptop CPU changed • DRAM and Flash both doubled • Mesh is really working • Batteries work • Website work (display) • Power Systems • Solar, human power, batteries, gang chargers

5. Prices Laptop Cost ~>$175 * depending on volume with new CPU, Doubled Flash, DRAM Total Cost ~$200 per child • depending on existing infrastructure and volume for servers, repeaters, power infrastructure, etc Deployment, teachers, maintenance Costs? • very dependent on country

6. Pricing Continued • Floats Down, sometime up • Quarterly pricing redo • Vendors make a small profit • Typically <3-4% margin • $100 will be reached by 2009 or sooner

7. Maturity All is Ready for Mass Production in September 2007 • We are working with the world’s largest manufacturers for 18 months • We have test every aspect of our designs • We have released prototypes in unheard of numbers to get field data • Bugs and issues found in the field continue to be addressed and incorporated into final changes to mass production systems

8. Will you assemble XOs in my country? Answer: Yes, eventually at high enough volume, but right now it’s too expensive Hub model