One of the reasons that the countries are poor (among other things, of course) is lack of education. With laptops, the students will be exposed to books, and will have the opportunity to educate themselves. Extra education would be a good thing, because when they grow up they will know enough to get or create a real job instead of just starving.
Like I said, binding books is expensive, but pressing CDs is cheap.
No but if they are so "third world" then perhaps we should invest more money into giving them basic necessities before we even think about laptops. Maybe attack the problem at the root, perhaps how the government of theirs is run, rebuilding whatever economy they have left, etc.
How are they going to overthrow their government if they don't understand what the problem is? And how are they going to understand it without proper education?
Sure, there's the option of another country "liberating" them from their government. But I would argue that the best way for a country to change its government is for its own citizens to overthrow it. After all, the citizens know what they want more than a country across the ocean does.