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XO Laptops Revamped for Secondary School Pupils
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| Uruguay has already ordered 90,000 of the
| new XO-HS notebooks, having previously
| taken receipt of almost 400,000 XO laptops
| for primary school children. The Uruguayan
| government is clearly eager to distribute
| computers among the young generation, and
| has also ordered 10,000 of the Intel
| Classmate PC laptops. With 230,000 high
| school students in total in Uruguay, there
| is scope for further orders, with delivery
| of the new PCs scheduled to begin in
| September this year.
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http://www.laptops.co.uk/news/2010/Jun/xo-laptops-revamped-for-secondary-school-pupils-92335182.html
Recent:
OLPC's New XO for 90,000 Teens in Uruguay
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| OLPC has just been awarded an order from
| Plan Ceibal for 90,000 XO's for teenagers in
| Uruguay. Yes, there will be a new XO
| specially for teenagers. Uruguay already has
| 380,000 of the original XOs for younger
| children, and now the kids can graduate to
| one designed for them as they mature.
|
| It's to be a dual boot laptop. Note not
| triple boot. No Microsoft in this picture at
| all. GNOME has leaped into the pool to help
| out. The press release says, "It will
| feature the learning-focused Sugar user
| interface together with the Gnome Desktop
| Environment to provide a dual-boot Linux
| operating system with office productivity
| tools." I wish I were a teenager in Uruguay
| so I could have one. If they do the partner
| program, I'm in.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20100615162529651
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