OLPC XO-1
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Review: mbed NXP LPC1768 microcontroller...also the impending wave of featherweight netbooks with ARM and VIA chips running peculiar, instant-on operating systems. Or the OLPC XO-1. Or older PowerPC Macs. The computers in the school's lab that you're not allowed to install any... In this article: Arduino, C++, Unix, Linux, OLPC XO-1, JavaScript, Google Docs, and Steroid |
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Guardian Unlimited | November 04, 2009
OLPC XO-2 cancelled: tablet will be developed next
...innovative dual-screen ebook/netbook, and is aiming for a tablet computer instead. There will also be an ARM-based version of the original XO-1 laptop, but this will not be able to run Microsoft Windows XP. In an interview with Xconomy...
In this article: Nicholas Negroponte, XO-1 Laptop, Gizmodo, Microsoft Windows XP, and Geneva
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I4U News | November 03, 2009
OLPC XO Laptop Will Be An eBook Computer By 2012
...CST | by Luigi Lugmayr There is some information about the OLPC project of Nicholas Negroponte. Apparently the 2nd generation OLPC XO laptop will be only a hardware upgrade of the current model and OLPC focuses on a completely new...
In this article: Nicholas Negroponte, Laptop, and OLPC XO
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Wikipedia | November 02, 2009
OLPC XO-1
...OLPC laptop, inspired by the design of small LCDs used in portable DVD players, which she estimated would cost about $35. In the OLPC XO-1, the screen is estimated to be the second most expensive component (after the CPU and chipset).
In this article: Nicholas Negroponte, Sugar, Mary Lou Jepsen, Fedora, Xfce, NiMH battery, SimCity, Microsoft Windows, and DVD
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Planet Ubuntu | September 14, 2009
Mackenzie Morgan: Takoma Park Folk Festival: Great Success!
...for large swaths of time because we were so swamped, but of the times that we remembered…362 visitors. Yeah, WOW! We find that having OLPC XO laptops seems to attract folks. "Is that the laptop from the news?" and then we get to explain Free...
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Wired: GeekDad | August 03, 2009
Inventing a New Paradigm: SugarLabs and the Sugar UI
...would be understated. Firms must innovate, adapt and grow, or fail. Two years ago when One Laptop per Child began shipping their XO-1 laptop, they defined an industry. People were excited not for OLPC's mission, which always seemed to be...
In this article: Sugar, Fedora Linux, Laptop, Nicholas Negroponte, Microsoft Windows, XO-1 Laptop, Microsoft, and Classmate PC
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Wired: GeekDad | July 02, 2009
A Look Back at the OLPC XO-1 and a Peek at the Road Ahead
...reliable, and inexpensive should be impossible. Over the past two years, One Laptop per Child began shipping the fruit of this labor, the XO-1 laptop, and forever changed the landscape of mobile computing by ushering in the netbook...
In this article: Laptop, E mail, Nicholas Negroponte, Wired.com, Sugar, SimCity, and Mary Lou Jepsen
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The Australian | December 01, 2008
OLPC XO-1 laptop a rugged marvel
...digital divide and hit on the idea of producing a laptop tough enough and cheap enough for Third World service. The result was the OLPC XO-1 laptop and about half a million of the bright green and white notebooks have been distributed so far,...
In this article: Recession, Sugar, M&C Saatchi, Nicholas Negroponte, Dell, and Microsoft
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Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide | June 23, 2008
First Footage: Same OLPC XO Boots Both Sugar and Windows XP
This is the first footage of the same XO OLPC doing a dual-boot of Sugar Linux and Windows XP-something skeptics have said wasn't going to happen. Soon, XOs will ship with both Sugar and XP for Boot Camp-style dual-booting options. They will...
In this article: Windows XP, Sugar, Linux, OLPC XO, Unix, Solaris, Laptop, and Boot Camp
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Engadget | May 15, 2008
OLPC XO officially gets Windows XP, children of the world to be assimilated - Engadget
OLPC XO officially gets Windows XP, children of the world to be assimilated by Nilay Patel, posted May 15th 2008 at 8:02PM It's been a controversial decision, but it looks like the OLPC XO has completed its transition from revolutionary...
In this article: Microsoft, Windows XP, OLPC XO, Linux, Sugar, Engadget, Bread, God, and Xbox
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Engadget | March 27, 2008
The OLPC XO gets overclocked, loses its innocence - Engadget
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The XO-1, previously known as the $100 Laptop or Children's Machine, is an inexpensive laptop computer intended to be distributed to children in developing countries around the world, to provide them with access to knowledge, and opportunities to "explore, experiment and express themselves" (constructionist learning). The laptop is developed by the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) social welfare organization, and manufactured by the Taiwanese computer company, Quanta Computer.
The laptops can be sold to governments and issued to children by schools on a basis of one laptop per child. Pricing is currently set to start at US$188 and the goal is to reach the $100 mark in 2008. Approximately 500 developer boards (Alpha-1) were distributed in mid-2006; 875 working prototypes (Beta 1) were delivered in late 2006; 2400 Beta-2 machines were distributed at the end of February 2007; full-scale production started November 6, 2007. Quanta Computer, the project's contract manufacturer, said in February 2007 that it had confirmed orders for one million units. It indicated it could ship five million to ten million units that year because seven nations have committed to buy the XO-1 for their schoolchildren: Argentina, Brazil, Libya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Thailand, and Uruguay. Quanta plans to offer machines very similar to the XO machine on the open market.
The rugged, low-power computers contain flash memory instead of a hard drive and use Linux as their operating system. Mobile ad-hoc networking is used to allow many machines to share Internet access from one connection.
The laptop falls into the newly-defined category of Netbooks.
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