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Negroponte Outlines the Future of OLPCâHints at Paperlike
Design for Third Generation Laptop
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| X: You had a 500,000-machine manufacturing
| backlog. Where does that stand now?
|
| NN: The precise numbers today are 1.1
| million [laptops] out and a back-log of
| 400,000-700,000, depending on how you count.
| More importantly, the numbers mean less,
| like the books. In fact, a far more
| interesting number is that as much as 1/3 of
| the current worldwide production of laptops
| is netbooks.
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http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2009/11/02/negroponte-outlines-the-future-of-olpc-hints-at-paperlike-design-for-third-generation-laptop/
'Laptop per child can end learning by rote'
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| Speaking on the genesis of the OLPC concept
| , Negroponte said: ââ At MIT we were trying
| to understand how children learn and we
| realized that the first five years of
| learning takes place without a teacher. At
| about six we are sent to school where we
| start learning by being taught. There is a
| sharp break, he learns by what is being told
| to him by teachers and remembering becomes
| the fundamental tool of learning. This is
| notable in India too. For the next 10 years
| what the child undergoes is rote learning,
| which isnât learning at all.ââ
|
| [...]
|
| While stating that he received a negative
| response from India three-years back,
| Negroponte said: ââ The president of Peru
| committed for a laptop for each child and
| Uruguay has already implemented that. Could
| India do this to all 250 million children?
| Yes, and if nothing happens, at least this
| would definitely kill rote learning.ââ
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http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/et-cetera/Laptop-per-child-can-end-learning-by-rote/articleshow/5225304.cms
Recent:
OLPC switching to ARM, plans paper thin netbook
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| One Laptop per Child chairman Nicholas
| Negroponte told Xconomy that OLPC is
| prepping an ARM-based version 1.75 of its
| XO netbook while planning to release a
| "paper-thin" version 3.0 in 2012.
| Meanwhile, the Internet Archive is
| providing OLPC users with 1.6 million e-
| books, says the nonprofit organization.
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http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/News/OLPC-175-and-3/?kc=rss
BoomingBang: XO Laptop Role Playing Game
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| BoomingBang, a RPG game, whose release is
| due till late OCTOBER 09. The BoomingBang
| project, started by me, Abhishek Indoria,
| initially, and a friend, was a small
| deployment. It was started in March 2009,
| when none of them (us, actually) have heard
| of OLPC. Back again, in June, 2 XO laptops
| were requested, and the project was started
| officially.
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http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/india/boomingbang_xo_laptop_role_pla.html
Negroponte: XO-1.75 goes ARM, XO-2 is canceled
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| An ARM based XO-1.75 on the other hand is much
| more of an evolutionary rather than a
| revolutionary step into the future. So many
| people, especially a certain Charbax, had long
| expected OLPC to move from an x86 to an ARM
| design.
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http://www.olpcnews.com/people/negroponte/negroponte_xo-175_goes_arm_xo-2_is_cancelled.html
Three reasons Microsoft shouldn't port Windows to the ARM processor
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| Without a version of Windows tailored for ARM netbooks, Linux-based platforms
| such as Google Inc.'s Android mobile operating system could thrive and turn
| the search and Web services company into "more of a competitor in the desktop
| operating system business than we ever have before," admitted Microsoft CEO
| Steve Ballmer to Wall Street last month.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9129632&source=rss_topic122
OLPC Set to Dump X86 for Arm Chips in XO-2
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| [T]he Arm chip could lead to problems for XO-2 in trying to load a full
| version of Windows, Negroponte said. As with the XO-1, OLPC wants to offer a
| dual-boot option on XO-2 where users can choose to load either Linux or a
| full Windows OS. While Arm processors can run Windows Mobile operating
| systems, they can't run a full Windows OS.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/161112/olpc_set_to_dump_x86_for_arm_chips_in_xo2.html?tk=rss_news
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