... One Laptop Per Child <http://www.laptop.org/> founder Nicholas Negroponte<http://www.ted.com/index.php/speakers/view/id/38>said this week during a speech in Geneva, Switzerland, that *a retail version of the laptop may be commercially available in September 2007*, according to a report<http://www.genevalunch.com/genevalunchrethink/2007/07/feature-negropo.html>published by local blog GenevaLunch. Negroponte presented the laptop project at TED2006 (watch video <http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/41> or read summary <http://giussani.typepad.com/loip/2006/02/ted2006_history.html>) and had already spoken of<http://www.lunchoverip.com/2007/01/dld07_being_goo.html>the possibility of a commercial rollout, suggesting however a longer time-horizon. *The laptop may be sold under a "buy one, pay two" model (the second going to a kid in a developing country)*. Currently, 7,000 of the computers are in use<http://wiki.laptop.org/go/One_Laptop_per_Child>, said Negroponte. He expects to see this figure grow to 1 million by the end of the year. And being the ambitious visionary we know, he believes that within five years -- if not sooner -- OLPC could account for 20 percent of the world's computer production ... Rolling out large numbers of computers could be made easier by last week's announcement that OLPC and Intel -- which until then had pursued<http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9721242-7.html> competing <http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/06/intel_vs_olpc_r.html>inexpensive computers for developing countries (OLPC's laptop is built around a chip by AMD, Intel's main competitor) -- have agreed<http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20070713corp.htm?cid=rss-90004-c1-174868>to work together. ... http://blog.ted.com/2007/07/100dollars_lapt.php -- http://users.ntua.gr/karounos/ - skype: karounos