BBC News has a piece, Factfile:
XO laptop, on the current form of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) machine being developed by Nicholas Negroponte and MIT Media Lab.
While at the time of its release,
the XO laptop (as it was called) made a great toy for adults and children alike here in Canada, now that two years have passed, we can start to see the results from the real - world experience of certain countries.
Please, tell us more about price and functionality competitivness of
XO laptop compared to very cheap tablets made in China, thank you.
Meanwhile, in what could be further bad news for Aakash, many other states have evinced interest in
the XO laptop which means, there might be too few takers for the Aakash.
Manipur has already received its first lot of
XO laptop to the tune of 70,000 units and there is talk going on for more of them to be brought in.
Most importantly, FBReader is the only eBook reader that I know can run on the OLPC
XO laptop.
I really liked
the XO laptop ebook reader demo, on the same site.
His XO laptops for One Laptop Per Child are now distributed in 60 countries.
So as proof of the Aakash tablet not making the headway that it had been hyped to do, companies such as Rajasthan and Manipur have refused the tablet and have opted for a much more expensive
XO laptops made by nonprofit organization One Laptop Per Child (OLPC).
Nicholas Negroponte, co-founding director of the MIT media Laboratory in Cambridge, Mass., came up with the idea for the project, which will hand out distinctive green and white
XO laptops that are inexpensive, rugged and energy efficient.
500
XO Laptops (One Laptop Per Child), 300 Lifestraws, 10 MoneyMaker irrigation pumps
Not exact matches
Negroponte originally predicted 150 million
XO - 1s would ship annually by 2007, but so far only 1.4 million
laptops have been distributed in nearly three years of production.
And while cell phones are still much more common than computers in the Third World, the tubes are coming: I got my first look this weekend at the one -
laptop - per - child
XO machine, courtesy of my father, who's taken advantage of the give - one / get - one holiday offer (my brother and his IBM - Linux - guru wife have done the same).
:D funny how you can buy a
laptop too haha Pam
xo / Pam Scalfi ♥
Expansion could be rapid, as ePals's applications are available for both One
Laptop Per Child's
XO computer and the Intel - powered Classmate PC.
On our
LAPTOP Battery Test (Web surfing via Wi - Fi), the Fuhu Nabi 2 lasted for 8 hours and 5 minutes, the
XO Tablet endured 6 hours and 4 minutes, and the Meep faded after roughly 3 hours.
Interestingly, another new contender in this space, the OLPC
XO from the One
Laptop Per Child initiative, thoughtfully adds a set of controls to the screen edge to solve this problem.
One
Laptop per Child (OLPC), the global children's educational non-profit born at the MIT Media Lab, and Nook Media, the device division of Barnes and Noble, announced a partnership that will pre-install a special variant of the Nook apps on OLPC's US - based
XO tablet devices.
For now, I hope this collection provides a good start for OLPC
XO owners who want to use their
laptops to read children's books.
> [Sources] not requiring systems that cost more than the
laptop, > nor someone with
XO - green skin color to crank?
The
XO tablet that the two states are considering as an alternative to the stagnant or intermittent Aakash project is in reality a
laptop that would have all the study material for different exam boards in the country.
At CES 2012 event, the One
Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project has unveiled its first tablet, the OLPC
XO - 3.
Previously, we had known OLPC with its sub - $ 100 mini
laptop such as the OLPC
XO - 1.75 mini
laptop.
One
Laptop Per Child's noble vision of empowering children worldwide brings its Dreams software to the 7 - inch
XO Tablet, but it has some flaws.
But OLPC is demonstrating that its upcoming
XO - 1.75
laptop and
XO - 3.0 tablet will be able to run on solar power.
Well, if SimCity can help people better understand ecological choices, then it may be good news that I just read that EA is porting SimCity to run on the One
Laptop Per Child
XO machines.
On Jordan's point (universal access open - source software), the folks at MIT who put together the One
Laptop per Child project (the
XO computer) designed it for just this purpose.
Children's education technology non-profit One
Laptop Per Child has already released the line of low - cost family - oriented tablets it showed off at this year's CES, the
XO Tablet.
So we are popped on the kitchn bench with the
laptop computer and checking in on all our Blogging friends activities, there is so much going on and we don't want to miss a thing:) J & J
xo