'$100 laptop' production begins
 

*Source: BBC News (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6908946.stm)*
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Five years after the concept was first proposed, the so-called $100 laptop is poised to go into mass production.

Hardware suppliers have been given the green light to ramp-up production of all of the components needed to build millions of the low-cost machines.

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