We recently posted a wiki page summarizing XO prices (roughly $185-$205 by quantity), and how to get XOs for your own deployment: Buying XOs. The minimum order is 1,000, with occasional exceptions made for orders as small as 100.
In addition to our national partnerships, OLPC regularly sells XOs to groups all over the world who are running pilot programs in their district or community. While we do not often sell in quantities of less than a thousand laptops, exceptions are made for programs that have planned for a successful deployment. (And we feature some of the best-planned grassroots programs here on our blog!)
For groups working in war-torn or post-conflict regions, we may also be in discussions with aid groups who could help support a program. Feel free to get in touch with us if you are planning a sizeable project in these regions. For more information or to place an order, email us at countries@laptop.org.
To Whom It May Concern,
I am currently a student at the University of Texas in Arlington. One of my courses is engaged in a service learning project with Promise Worldwide (promiseworldwide.org), where we will be reading books to school children, and I and my classmates are looking forward to fundraising for their cause. We are wondering if it’s possible to use our fundraising money to purchase these laptops to donate to children in Calcutta, India, to the specific school that we are helping via Promise Worldwide.
Please get back to me with information on if this is possible, and if so, the steps involved in the process.
Thank you so much,
Andrea Fleeman
How might I find a donor for a school in the Solomon Islands? Please email me. Sheryl Spears
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ncarrol: Growing in steps is fine in steps of roughly 100; we don’t currently handle smaller sales. We have worked with NGOs that work with or expand into a few different schools, each of which is small. The NGO might purchase a batch of laptops and distribute them to the independent schools (who might each pay for their share of the total; and might also share support over time).
I hope we also have a channel for individual sales in the future, but we don’t today.
C.J. Smith: that would be roughly $195 per laptop, plus roughly 5% in shipping and other costs, plus local customs. Please see the wiki page and send email to countries@laptop.org for a quote and details.
I have a home office in the last five years or so, I have tested various network setups with the view of creating something larger and more significant. I see some promise in the OLPC project in my community. I have some working knowledge in some Linux distributions like Ubuntu, Open Suse and Fedora. Am currently running a dual boot of xp and Ubuntu. I want to have an expanded wi-fi from my home to my “village”…referred here as ekyalo. We have a five tier governance system that is geo-sensitive by that can serve as great model in my local area here in the caital city of Uganda.
I have worked and shared my IPad with some of the youngsters in my village. I want them to have access to your latest hardware and manage the connections from my home.
The best I can do is buy from Rwanda which seems to be the closest country with a vibrant system. I can start with two and later increase. Because I am self financing, this is the best that I can do. The xo would provide an alternative to a complex life.
Please advise!
Dear staff:
I am interested in purchasing 5000 OLPC’s.
What are the costs?
I want to send them to South Africa.
C. J. Smith
There is one other area I hope you would address: how existing small deployments can grow in small steps. I have before suggestied selling 100 quantities to existing NGO, who might resell in 10 quantities to other existing deployments. Example: I have a deployment of 75 and I have a request to start expanding into a second school, starting with 12.