OLPC XO Review and Teardown
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| A new initiative called One Laptop Per Child has the goal of getting a
| low-cost, entry-level notebook into the hands of children in developing
| countries. This notebook is the OLPC-XO which is an extremely basic version
| of what we might consider a portable computer, but comes in a durable,
| affordable, and easy-to-use package. In this review I will cover both the
| internal hardware aspect of this notebook, along with a comparison of it
| against more common consumer notebooks.
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http://www.tabletpcreview.com/default.asp?newsID=1072
Asus Eee PC 2G Surf User Review
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| Over the past couple of years computers designed for developing nations have
| received a fair bit of media attention, especially in the tech community.
| Immediately, the implications of computing for the masses gained traction and
| immediate attention from the world's poorest economies. Could this be a great
| equalizer?
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http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=4209
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OLPC at BETT Olympia
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| We were very fortunate to have been loaned 3 OLPC XO laptops by Tomi Davies
| (OLPC’s CEO for Nigeria) to demonstrate the platform’s Open Source Software
| and the incredible computer that runs it which was designed from the
| ground-up specifically for children in developing countries.
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| The response has been absolutely amazing! We have been completely inundated
| all day, everyone wanted to touch it, see it and BUY IT! The PC was featured
| on the BBC news this morning and is discussed at some length in various pages
| on their website. Here’s a link to today’s article.
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http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/01/09/olpc-at-bett-olympia/
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.
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| 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
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