The green plastic casing and membrane covered keyboard was a clear sign of the OLPC XO laptop designed to provide disadvantaged kids with the chance to get used to working with computers, which hopefully will set them off onto a better life.
However, the keyboard has been an issue, being a plastic membrane style it wore our fast and showed signs of wear of and tear, quite literally!
Here’s a cool laptop for kids. The keyboard is actually not a real keyboard but a touchscreen that can be also used as LCD.
Negroponte didn’t share many details about the XO-2’s hardware, but the new system has two touch-sensitive displays. As you can see from the video and the pictures, the XO-2 will be much smaller than the original machine (half the size, according to the press release) and will have a folda
