Deal of the Day – Give a Laptop, Get a Laptop

i want help of a laptop.

I'd like to give one, but I need the $399.. so I'll ask my blog readers :)
I need to make $399.00 to give a laptop

This is a good project.

May I know whose brainchild is that?

Good idea, but I see its a mixed feeling.

Steve

Maybe instead of a laptop they should give them food and shelter. What a joke. A laptop is really going to improve the life of someone who is missing every other necessity in life?

Youtube will not improve your life.

Why donate a computer to a child in a developing nation when you have millions of poor in yours?

I have submitted this post to stumbleupon. Follow this link:

http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.johnchow.com/de...

Good idea, how it works!

Its good to see John Chow using some of the money that he has made from blogging for a good cause.I would like to encourage everybody out there to join John and many others in this program.By giving one laptop and getting one laptop, you will be helping to bridge the digital divide. Cheers!

http://digg.com/offbeat_news/Deal_of_the_Day_Give_...

Put JC back at the top of Digg. =D

I have heard of this somewhere as i stumbled, i thought it was a great idea, but it was not within my budget otherwise, i would have done the same like how i donate to the gospel to feed the children.

http://www.obsidianprofile.com/index.php/blog/entr...

Read that before bashing some of the aspects of OLPC.

I went to check their site, and for this 1G1G program, you pay for 2 and they will send one to a child in the 4 countries listed, i..e, Afgan, Cambodia, Haiti and Rwanda.

As soon as I read John's post this evening, I posted an alert to my Indonesian language blog. But then upon checking further, I realized that it would take a group donations of 10,000+ unit with $200/unit that you would be able to send it to whoever or which group you choose. For 100+ unit, you could only send 60% while the rest will be send by them to the group they've chosen, and if you increase it to 1000+ then you get another 20% to make it 80/20. I still think it's a good program and TG that John is 50/50 or may be less in terms of the root of all evils. :twisted:

But seriously John Chow, I truly applaud that you use your formidable influence and social clout to spread worthwhile messages and attempt to make a difference to others far less fortunate than you. Keep up the good work!

I am a child in a developing nation!! :wink:

This is a good way to help child in developing countries. What a good idea!

I was actually gonna buy one for the poor kids even without the 1 for 1 promotion.

Though did you know there are reviews on the web that say this OLPC laptop is servely crippled to make this cheap price?

This is a great way to donate!! Thanks John.

hey john, here is t-mobile's press release: http://www.t-mobile.com/company/PressReleases_Arti...
thanks for keeping us aware. i'm going to check into this more when i get home.

I don't comment much but I wanted to let you know that while I was going to do this anyway, this post was a great reminder/motivator and spurred me to actually pull the trigger on a donation. What's even better is that they accept PayPal (eBay is helping them out) so I didn't even have to pull out my wallet.

Excellent post JC.

Wasn't this supposed to be the $100 laptop? Obviously it's costing more than that to manufacture. So the $100 laptop becomes a $400 laptop with a $200 tax deductible tagged on? Strange.

At least it's going to be easier for those nigerian lottery letters to get out with every child in a developing country discovering the internets :???:

Interesting way to send in a tax-deductible donation that includes a bonus for the donater. Sadly, I don't have money :( The laptop looks sweet too..

-Mike

I hope this works well. I am in the UK but it sounds liek a great idea

great post..this type of actions must be done more often by people!

...and here I thought John Chow was all evil ;) :twisted:
I guess there is a bit of good in everybody :)

Too bad this is only for USA and Canada. It looks like a cool laptop.

I don't know... but maybe we should worry about reading, writing, math, AIDs, food and electricity before we decide we need to provide laptops. Am I the only one out there that thinks that this campaign is nuts? I truly believe that this is simply going to create a great black market and no one is going to have the resources (electricity or bandwidth) for this to make a difference.

Sorry I sound so negative. I just think the last thing a kid needs in a developing country is a laptop.

Donation for good cause with immediate reward. I think it will motivate some to take that $399 out of their pockets/bank and spend for some really good cause while receiving the "tax deductable receipts" at the same time.

There is nothing better then getting something back for giving. That is a real good cause too.

Wow give AND receive? Very niiiiiceeee.

Yeah, I saw this program on 60 minutes.. I mean the accessible laptop for every child in Africa. I heard they are going to have a $100 laptop..

Sincerest thanks for posting about OLPC and G1G1, John.

I heard about this on the news a few weeks ago. I bought two. It's a great program!
I don't know what I'm going to do with my two free laptops though. :razz: