The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project has been given a big boost with the addition of ARM chips and the introduction of an 8.9 inch touch screen that allows children to operate the machine much more easily. Edward McNierney, chief technology officer of OLPC has been explaining these changes and what that will mean for the OLPC project, in fact, there is a video on YouTube where he goes over the features and ben
This is a bit of a revelation, the standard OPLC laptop is good but not that good, but the XO 3 is brilliant and it looks the part too. The device is in development at the moment but they are expecting to get a demo model out towards the end of the year and in time for the CES 2011!
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The children of the Gaza Strip are busy working on their new OLPC machines that were recently delivered through United Nations project which is aiming to get half a million of these useful little laptops into the area and into the hands of these children.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) arranges for the children in the West Bank, Gaza, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan to get schooling and these computers make that job a little bit easier.
Here are some of the features and specs of the OLPC machine:
CPU: x86-compatible
OLPC will be coming back to Amazon this November 17th. After the changes that OLPC went, I am not sure it’s a good idea anymore as I am not for money-hungry corporate people who sell-out themselves to Microsoft and its beloved CEO left…
Well, I will leave the choice up to you here but I
Our beloved OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) will be coming to Amazon in November. I think this is a great idea as Amazon will help increase the sales of OLPC and ultimately help them invent more low-cost PCs for kids in 3rd world countries.
Amazon.com will start selling XO laptops under the Give One, Get One program in late November. Sales will likely extend through the end of December.
“We’re a small group of people,” said Keller, explaining the rationale for working with Amazon.com.
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Here’s some screenshots of the red OLPC, pretty much same thing made for developers of OLPC.
Wilson caught this limited edition Red OLPC at the company’s headquarters near MIT’s campus in Cambridge today. The limited edition run of 100 is made for developers working on the dual boot Sugar Linux and Windows XP system, and has specs identical to the regular OLPC, except 2GB of RAM 2GB flash memory—the minimum required for Windows.
The new OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) XO2 will act like an eletronic book in addition to other cool new features being added.
The revamped machine created by the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project looks like an e-book and has had its price slashed to $75 per device.
OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte gave a glimpse of the “book like” device at an unveiling event at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The first XO2 machines should be ready to deliver to children in 2010.
Mr Negroponte said he hoped the design wo
