Whether you’re buying the first laptop for your fifth-grader or a graduation gift for your 18-year-old, deciding which model to get can feel like homework. Beyond the basics—Chromebook, Mac, ...

What did Nicholas Negroponte expect? His One Laptop Per Child initiative, launched in 2005, had all the right ideals but the wrong strategy. The idea of building a $100 laptop for children in ...

The United Nations has joined an effort led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to build $100 laptops and give them to schoolchildren around the world. The United Nations Development ...

MIT’s venerable Media Lab recently announced an initiative to build low-cost Linux-based laptops for school children in developing nations. With a $100 targeted price tag, the laptops would run a ...

One Laptop Per Child shows off the first version of its XO laptop, including many features geared toward helping kids learn in their own environment The hardest thing about learning to use the OLPC ...

The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative has exceeded 250,000 laptops distributed in various parts of the world since production of the inexpensive XO machine designed for the program started in ...

Chromebook, PC, or Mac? And how much memory and storage should you get? These tips from CR experts can help you decide. By Melanie Pinola Whether you’re buying the first laptop for your fifth-grader ...