Laptop for every child?

Low cost laptops have been designed and used for children in developing countries, but now they are reaching the U.S. An experiment in Birminham, Alabama, has provided a laptop for every child in the classroom. These small XO laptops look like toys but they are able to handle most of the chores that a regular laptop does. Would it be possible to have a supply of these laptops in a library for children to use in doing their homework or searching for information? This hasn't happened yet, but as budgets grow ever tighter, it may be time to think about moving low cost laptops from the classroom to the library--both school and public libraries.