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The XO-1 comes with a 30-day limited warranty, but that's it, and it isn't written down anywhere. I was somewhat surprised-- and pleased-- to see that OLPC provided a toll-free support phone number.
Nonprofit organization One Laptop Per Child on Thursday said it is adding a multitouch screen to the upcoming XO-1.75 laptop and is modifying software to take advantage of the new hardware.
In this episode of Unboxing Live, we open up the OLPC XO-1. If that doesn’t sound familiar, this is the infamous One Laptop Per Child computer, aimed to help children in third-world countries with ...
What’s different is that the XO-4 is a true tablet thanks to the addition of a touchscreen display. OLPC is also sprucing up the new tablet with a 1.2 GHz Marvell PXA2128 dual-core processor.
Three million OLPC XO-1s, at a price of $175.00 apiece, have been ordered by various governments around the planet, giving the company sufficient funding to start mass production of the units in ...
In a recent interview, OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte told Xconomy that the team is killing off the XO-2 project and instead focusing on an XO Laptop version 1.75. Concept image: XO-2 Laptop ...
OLPC XO-1 (aka One Laptop Per Child) Finally, we should mention the XO-1, formerly the '$100 laptop', which is designed as part of a charitable project for children in developing nations.
The XO currently costs around $203 or $204 to make, said Keller, while the XO-2 will likely cost around $80. OLPC’s Web site says the goal of the project is to reach a price of $75 per laptop ...
Now OLPC is doing the same with ARM Powered laptops, the OLPC XO-1.75 is ready, it lasts about 2x longer on the same battery compared to x86 and it actually runs faster than x86.
But the initiative has not yet realized an initial pledge to deliver a sub-$100 laptop. OLPC XO-1 laptops are currently priced at $199 for a single unit through the initiative's latest "Give A ...
OLPC has shipped more than 500,000 XO laptops to children in 31 countries, including Afghanistan, Cambodia, and Iraq. The organization hopes to deliver 1 million units by the end of this year.
OLPC shipped 1 million XO laptop units over the past 12 months in 31 countries. The organization faces a backlog of more than 500,000 XO laptop orders, Negroponte said.