This is old news, but Mitt Romney is a big supporter of the $100 Laptop.  I don’t think he followed through with the idea, but he proposed to buy one for every middle and high school student in Massachusetts.
See the following articles for details.
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2005/laptops-1005.html 
http://www.leighbureau.com/speaker.asp?id=5

Intel Corp resigned from the board of the nonprofit One Laptop Per Child, citing differences over the chip maker’s plans to sell its own low-cost laptops in the developing world.
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CNN
LA Times
VOA News
AP