Examining the One Laptop Per Child XOs
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| First, I think it is important to mention that Global Literacy Foundation has
| provided two laptops (with a third one on the way) for me to review. They are
| asking for my blunt, raw opinion on these computers with respect to their
| usefulness for education. They have only provided the hardware. While they do
| pay for an advertising link on this website, they have not paid for the
| review. Put another way, there should be no misunderstanding about the
| relationship between Blue GNU, Global Literacy and this review. Actually, in
| most cases, hardware is provided by the vendor, rather than a third party. In
| this case, Global Literacy simply values and is seeking my opinion.
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http://blue-gnu.biz/content/examining_one_laptop_child_xos
Related:
Intel: doing the dirty on OLPC
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| Intel’s agreement with the OLPC Foundation included a ‘non disparagement’
| clause, under which Intel and One Laptop promised not to criticize each
| other, according to Nicholas Negroponte in the latest article in the Wall
| Street Journal.
|
| Still Intel tactics have violated that repeatedly to kill OLPC efforts in
| Nigeria, Libya, Pakistan, India, China and Intel is also still trying to pull
| those tactics in Mexico, Brazil.
| This is simply disgracefull of Intel, scandalous.
|
| But Negroponte has signed an agreement saying that he is not allowed to
| criticize Intel, so he is not allowed to talk about these shameless tactics
| even though Intel is the one violating the agreement.
|
| So only independant voices on the Internet can get those messages of truth
| out about Intels tactics.
|
| In Nigeria, Intel came and donated 3000 laptops to counter OLPC efforts, then
| sells 17 thousand Classmates to Nigeria at a loss.
|
| Then Microsoft corrupted Nigerian officials with 400 thousand dollars to
| install Windows XP on those instead of Mandriva Linux.
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http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14124
Africa's digital poster child [Intel's illegal dumping]
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| [Classmates in Nigeria]
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| The renovation has been paid for by the government and Intel, with the chip
| firm covering the majority of the costs of the technology.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7115218.stm
Why the XO Laptop is better than the Classmate
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| There's been some awful FUD flying around the OLPC world in the last few
| days, with misquotes, misinformation, and flat out lies being propagated left
| and right. Even Engadget, one of the better geektech blogs out there, got it
| completely wrong regarding OLPC CTO Mary Lou Jepsen's departure from the
| project.
|
| [...]
|
| Classmate is more expensive, consumes 10 times the power, has 1/3 the wifi
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| range, and can't be used outside. Also, the Classmate doesn't use neighboring
| laptops to extend the reach of the internet via hopping (mesh-networking)
| like the XO does. So not only is the XO cheaper than the Classmate, the XO
| requires less infrastructre expenditure for electricity and for internet
| access.
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http://planet-geek.com/archives/004331.html
Intel-powered XO is too expensive and consumes too much power
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| 2 days before Intel CEO Paul Otellini would unveil the Classmate 2 or the
| Intel-powered XO at the CES, Intel announced that they are quitting the OLPC
| board.
|
| Intel claims that they are quitting because of Nicholas Negroponte wanting
| them to stop the promotion of the Classmate/Eee to education in third world
| countries, but I think that the real reason is that Intel does not have a
| good enough processor for the OLPC project to use as an alternative to the
| AMD Geode LX-700. Intel has not been able to develop a processor to match the
| price, power consumption and performance requirements of the OLPC project.
| Paul Otellini could have looked like a fool at the CES if he had to unveil an
| Intel powered XO that was performing worse in terms of price and power
| consumption compared to the AMD powered one.
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http://charbax.com/2008/01/04/intel-diamondville-and-menlow-processors-not-low-costpower-enough/
OLPC Heralds Era of Low-Cost Computing
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| Critics of the One-Laptop-Per-Child (OLPC) Project like to point out that it
| has not yet lived up to its goal of putting US$100 notebooks in the hands of
| millions of kids in poor countries, but that's a short-sighted view
| considering the impact it's already having on the computer industry.
|
| OLPC's XO laptop and the dream of the $100 notebook PC have driven down the
| cost of computing and highlighted the issue of the lack of computing
| resources in developing nations.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,140697-c,notebooks/article.html
One Laptop Per Child Gets The Green Light in India
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| India may have been a late starter in adopting the powerful computer-based
| education program One Laptop Per Child (popularly known as OLPC), a
| brainchild of MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte to bridge the technology
| divide between rich and the poor children in the developing world.
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http://www.govtech.com/gt/216153?topic=118264
Birmingham City Schools will be first in nation to get $200 XO laptops
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| Birmingham city schools will be the first in the nation to receive laptop
| computers designed for children in third-world countries under an agreement
| completed over the weekend, Mayor Larry Langford announced Monday.
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http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2007/12/birmingham_city_schools_will_b.html
Birmingham might buy thousands of XO Laptop computers for students in grades
one through eight
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| The machines don't run Microsoft Office, Photoshop or any other standard Mac
| or Windows programs, instead using a free, open-source version of GNU/Linux,
| with a simplified graphical interface designed for children called Sugar. The
| laptop has a 500-megahertz processor and 256 megabytes of DRAM (dynamic
| random access memory) with 1 gigabyte of flash memory. The laptops have Web
| browsers and their own Wi-Fi system, the ability to connect to the Internet
| wirelessly. Each is on a "mesh network," meaning all the laptops can see each
| other, without any setup, even if there is no wireless connection nearby.
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http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1195463987242670.xml&coll=2&thispage=1
One laptop per child finds way into India
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| The one laptop per child (OLPC) project, a brainchild of MIT professor
| Nicholas Negroponte, will soon find its way into Indian homes.
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http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Infotech/Hardware/One_laptop_per_child_finds_way_into_India/articleshow/2583239.cms
$100 laptop program still eyes India
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| The so-called $100 laptops for children may make it to India after all.
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http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/ptech/10/25/100.laptop.india.ap/index.html
OLPC makes its entry into India - finally!
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| When the OLPC first made news, a prominent official in the HRD ministry of
| the Indian government had gone on record snubbing the OLPC project ($100
| laptop), even making a preposterous claim that work was under way to create
| India's own $10 laptop. But as things have worked out, OLPC has already made
| an entry into India in the form of a pilot project in a rural primary school
| in a village in the state of Maharasthra.
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http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2007/11/olpc-makes-its-entry-into-india-finally.html
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