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- Photos: A kid-tested XO laptop
- An eight-year-old puts the Windows version of the XO laptop through its paces. Folks in the U.S. taking part in the Give One, Get One program will all be getting the Linux version. by Ilene Hoffman
- Tags: Photograph, Laptop Computer, Eight-year-old, Linux, Notebooks, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Ilene Hoffman, Andy Smith, XO laptop, Windows
- Image galleries 2008-10-24
- Unboxing OLPC's XO laptop
- The XO laptop has landed. Here's a look at the out of the box experience. by Larry Dignan
- Tags: Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Larry Dignan, product photos, OLPC, XO laptop, mobile, laptops, education
- Image galleries 2008-01-10
- The low-cost laptop that Apple should have built (and sort-of once did)
- The buzz around the XO Laptop, aka the One Laptop Per Child group's "$100 laptop" is growing, with an innovative donation program coming in time for the holidays. But this colorful, rugged computer could have come from Apple, and in another time, it did. The...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Laptop Computer, XO Laptop, eMate, Keyboards, E-mail, PDAs, Productivity, Tools & Techniques, Monitors & Displays, Notebooks, Hardware, Peripherals, Online Communications, Handhelds, Management, Components, Notebooks & Tablets, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2007-10-08
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- From the ashes of Geode, AMD brings Bobcat with 1:1 possibilities
- OLPC's first laptop, the XO has been both praised and criticized for many things. Perhaps most significant was its incredibly low power consumption, critical for use in areas with very limited electrical capacity. Key to this power consumption was the AMD Geode processor, an utterly anemic piece of...
- Tags: Power Consumption, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., One Laptop Per Child Project, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-11-13
- Macedonia rolls out 53,000 Classmate PCs
- And the OLPC?Seems to be doing well as well. Uruguay is finishing its distribution of laptops this year. For more info:Spanish:http://www.ceibal.edu.uy/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=96&Itemid=247English translation:http://translate.google.com.mx/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ceibal.edu.uy%2Findex.php%3Foption%3Dcom_content%26view%3Dcategory%26layout%3Dblog%26id%3D96%26Itemid%3D247&sl=es&tl=en&hl=es&ie=UTF-8Contrary to what was said in some articles in your section back in '07. The XO is doing well, it has support, it has training and...
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, training and certification, Notebooks, Uruguay, Macedonia, Intel Classmate PC, Classmate, netbook, PC
- Discussion threads 2009-10-06
- ASUS low-cost touchscreen ebook expected by end of 2009
- XO-2Two pages, and one can function as a touch keyboard? Boy, that sounds a lot like the olpc's plans for the XO-2.display?I wonder what the display technology will be. Epaper is prefered for ebooks because it uses far less power than standard laptop displays. But the article says it...
- Tags: E-books, Keyboards, Monitors & displays, XO-2, e-book, ePaper, ASUS, touch screen
- Discussion threads 2009-09-07
- Netbooks with Nvidia's Ion wait on Windows 7
- Try carrying a notebook in your jacket`s pocket.The main advantage of netbooks is portability. $549 - $599 for a netbook?HA!! What would be the point to buy one and not a notebook? I bought mine, the 8.9" Acer Aspire One, for $300.00. I thought they were supposed to get less...
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, NVidia Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, netbook
- Discussion threads 2009-08-21
- While I'm away...Kindlenomics and OLPC revisited
- Since my wife is 6 months pregnant and my mom is visiting from Seattle, we've decided to take a night away while said mom watches the kids. As a result, you get one more repost. I'll be back tomorrow, recharged after a bed and breakfast getaway; it will...
- Tags: Student, Hardware, Textbook, One Laptop Per Child Project, Kindle, Kindroid, XO 2.0, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-07-30
- While I'm away..."How I'd use Classmate PCs in the States (and why I really want a UMPC now)"
- Here's a blast from the past...This was originally posted back in 2007. Classmates and 1:1 have come a long ways, haven't they? While the United States and other established markets are not the target for Intel’s Classmate PC, I sincerely hope they bring something like this...
- Tags: Intel Classmate PC, PC, Ultramobile PC, Classroom, Laptop Computer, Computer, Classmate, Productivity, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-07-14
- First look: Intel's Moblin 2.0 Linux desktop for netbooks
- First look: Intel's Moblin 2.0 Linux desktop for netbooksThe menu for choiceI haven't tried Moblin myself, but your report sounds disappointing. Of course any interface should be application centered. What are they thinking?Maybe Intel could provide a choice during installation of Moblin, what kind of interface you want. Some Linux...
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Wi-Fi, Web browsers, Moblin 2.0 Linux desktop, netbook, Intel Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-05-26
- Apple snags Ex-OLPC security chief
- Apple snags Ex-OLPC security chiefCould it be that Apple likes to change the game?As Harry mentions everyone benefits from Apple's crazy ideas...even if you hate Apple and never use any of their products, you will benefit by what they do. No one else seems to be willing to step outside...
- Tags: Apple OSX, Apple Inc., security
- Discussion threads 2009-05-13
- Living with a netbook: Toy or tiny notebook?
- There is no denying the popularity of netbooks, but there's still much debate about who's buying them and for what purpose. Netbooks were conceived for emerging markets--along the lines of the OLPC's XO laptop and Intel's Classmate PC--but they turned out to be more popular in developed countries. More recently,...
- Tags: Notebook, Netbook, Intel Corp., Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware, John Morris
- Blog posts 2009-05-13
- South Carolina's OLPC initiative: money well-spent?
- South Carolina's OLPC initiative: money well-spent?indeed well spentNothing dying about OLPC or olpc, upper or lower case. 1 million kids have XO laptops in 31 countries and 19 languages, with another million headed too them. The results have been nothing less than complete social change. If Rwanda can 20% of...
- Tags: One Laptop Per Child project, OLPC initiative, XO-2
- Discussion threads 2009-05-13
- South Carolina's OLPC initiative: money well-spent?
- South Carolina is looking to revive the dying OLPC brand by providing as many as 50,000 students with little PCs. According to OStatic, In order to receive a laptop, children need to give a small monetary donation -- the project coordinators say a dollar or two...
- Tags: South Carolina, Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-05-13
- The XO-2 is going Embedded RISC? So will everyone else!
- The XO-2 is going Embedded RISC? So will everyone else!At a minimum, Arm will cause big problems for BOTH Intel and Microsoft.No, x86 and Windows will not die any time soon, but, low power, lower cost Arm will be hot in the netbook segment starting this year, and that cuts...
- Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Operating systems, Processors, netbook, Linux, Microsoft Corp., Intel x86, XO-2, RISC
- Discussion threads 2009-03-13
- Will Microsoft port Windows to an Arm-based OLPC laptop?
- OLPC chief Nicholas Negroponte is hinting that the OLPC project is leaning strongly toward dumping x86 processors in favor of lower-power Arm-based ones for the next-generation XO-2 laptops. There's one problem: At least as Arm and Windows currently exist, a full version of Windows is unlikely to load on an...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Arm, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2009-03-12
- More signs of OLPC woe?
- A number of outlets highlighted the removal of OLPC's "Give a School" small donation program from its website, giving rise to further concerns about its long-term plans in small markets. The Give a School program allowed donors to provide up to 100 XO laptops for small-scale deployments that have...
- Tags: Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-02-09
- OLPC to laptop makers: Use our design
- OLPC to laptop makers: Use our designRE: Hey Open Source come back -- Use our design"Bill Gates told CNET News that the "OLPC hasn't done that well" ..."Hence no ROI."... --the group said that it would be working with Microsoft to make a Windows variety of its XO laptop, ..."Anticipation...
- Tags: laptop computer, Third World, One Laptop Per Child project, third world country
- Discussion threads 2009-02-09
- Is it possible to build a $20 laptop?
- The unveiling of the $20 laptop-the result of a major project involving the government, universities and the private sector in India-so far hasn't done much to clear up the mystery surrounding the ultra-inexpensive notebook. All we really know about the device is that it will have a low-power chip (it...
- Tags: Memory, Laptop Computer, Christopher Dawson, Government, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, John Morris
- Blog posts 2009-02-03
- Happy birthday to me: a $20 laptop?
- Happy birthday to me: a $20 laptop?Yes! India can do it.I think, India can do it, because of it size and manpower. They have done it for Mobile phone.India has the second largest cell phone users in the world and call charges are cheapest in the world and main thing...
- Tags: Notebooks, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2009-02-02
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