Asustek has announced that its ridiculously low-cost notebook, and challenger to Nicholas Negroponte’s OLPC, the Eee PC, will launch in the UK on 12 November.

The cost of the Asus laptop in the UK will be £219 inc VAT for the 4G model, and £199 inc VAT for the 2G Surf model in the UK.

That said, [...]

Shipments of the XO notebook PC for the OLPC project (One Laptop Per Child) will likely be delayed until the third quarter, the manufacturer said Friday.
Quanta Computer Inc., the world’s largest contract laptop PC manufacturer, had earlier predicted shipments could start as early as July, but software adjustments by the One Laptop Per Child group [...]