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Negroponte's laptop finally in production

Those $100 $200 laptops from Nick Negroponte are finally rolling off the production line at Quanta, the Taiwanese manufacturer of One Laptop Per Child's breakthrough XO laptops. OLPC says Quanta is currently producing 15,000 per month but that those numbers will rise. ...

Tags: Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Negroponte, XO, Wayan Vota, G1G1, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2007-11-07

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Negroponte's big lie

Nicholas Negroponte is working nothing less than a fraud on international governments by washing his hands of support, deployment and maintenance issues. Those costs and tasks are shifted back onto OLPC's government customers, probably the worst possible candidates for an IT support organization. I talked yesterday with...

Tags: PC, One Laptop Per Child Project, Negroponte, Nicholas Negroponte, Government, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-05-20

MSFT working on XP for XO

One of the biggest problems the One Laptop Per Child program has is that it has no support plan. How do you sell millions of laptops to third world governments without offering to support them? I wrote about this last month here (XO laptop sales begin but support plan is...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, MSFT, One Laptop Per Child Project, Government, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Sales Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Sales, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2007-12-05

XO laptop sales begin, but support plan is nonexistent

Distributing laptops to kids around the world was supposed to be a government initiative. But Nicholas Negroponte has largely failed to sign up any foreign governments to purchase millions of One Laptop Per Child’s XO laptops. Today the effort moved to the world of consumer sales...

Tags: Sales, Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, XO, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2007-11-12