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OLPC Laptops Facing Production Delays
Many of those hoping to get their hands on an OLPC XO laptop by Christmas wil have to wait. The One Laptop Per Child Foundation is having some last minute production bugs and production won’t start until November 12.
Buy and Give an OLPC XO Laptop for $399
The One Laptop Per Child Foundation announced the Give 1 Get 1 Program. You’ll soon be able to order an XO laptop for your own child and one for a child in a developing nation for $399.
$100 OLPC Laptop Now $188 and Counting…
The One Laptop Per Child project’s “$100 laptop” is edging closer to $200 as component prices rise and specs are improved. According to recent reports, if the the OLPC laptop were to ship today the average cost would be around $188.
OLPC Laptops May Hit Store Shelves by Christmas for $350
The One Laptop Per Child Foundation, the non-profit bringing mobile computers to developing nations, may begin selling the low-cost XO laptop to consumers by Christmas this year. The XO laptop may sell for as low as $35o, or twice its production. The program will act as a fund raiser so more students can receive their first computers.
Intel Joins One Laptop Per Child
Intel is now supporting the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, after some very public bitterness. OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte previously accused Intel of trying to squash his groups progress in delivering $100 laptops to children in developing countries, but is signing a much different tune as Intel joins the OLPC board.
One Laptop Per Child to Drop Price to $50
The One Laptop Per Child project expects unit prices of its notebooks for children in emerging markets to drop to $50 by 2009.
The project’s CTO, Mary Lou Jepsen says one million OLPC notebooks will ship per month by the end of 2007. Things are expected to accellerate quickly and 150 million OLPC notebooks will ship by the end of 2008.
Update on One Laptop Per Child
In this video, MIT professor and One Laptop Per Child founder Nicholas Negroponte’s spends about 90% of his time traveling around the globe to promote the $100 laptop project. He appeared on 60 Minutes to talk about the project’s progress and what he calls unfair competition from Intel.
Nigerian Students Get OLPC Laptops
The One Laptop Per Child project deployed dozens of its computers at a school in Nigeria in an effort to bridge the digital divide.
One Laptop Per Child User Interface Demo
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The One Laptop Per Child project (OLPC) is working hard to bridge the digital divide and this video walks you through the OLPC’s user interface. The laptop runs on Linux, with simplified menus and navigation. The desktop uses universal icons and is void of dropdown text menus. The OLPC XO-1 comes with Firefox for [...]
One Laptop Per Child Specs Released
Someday soon underprivileged children will carry super efficient laptops with a 500 MHz AMD processor, 128 MB of RAM, 512 MB Flash Drive and a dual-mode LCD, running at 640Ãâ€â€480 in color mode and 1110Ãâ€â€830 in black and…