Chief technology officer Mary Lou Jepsen said that it would sell initially for US$350, whch is about twice its production cost.
Its entry into the commercial market may prove to be a challenge to traditional PC makers such as Hewlett-Packard, Dell and Lenovo.
OLPC is in discussions with companies to handle consumer sales over the Internet, and to provide technical support. The foundation is moving into the commercial market to use the profits from these sales for making more laptops for poor children.
Taiwan's Quanta Computer will begin formal mass production of the computer in China this October with an order of three million units. - Reuters
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