Two laptops per child, for two weeks

Nicholas Negroponte has, at last, seen sense and starting to come up with business models that will allow rich Westerners to buy the OLPC laptops one at a time while subsidizing the children it was originally designed for. At last! About time! Smart guy, but he seemed to have a blindspot about wanting only customers who bought 250,000 units or more and had a seat on the UN. Typical Americocentrism but hopefully the fortnight's experiment in retailing to rich Americans will work, he'll have a consequent epiphany, and the laptops will become available to the rest of us. I'd pay 2.5x the price for one, just to subsidize the production and shipping of the second. Looks like the social singularity might be back on track!