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olpc

First Footage: Same OLPC XO Boots Both Sugar and Windows XP

This is the first footage of the same XO OLPC doing a dual-boot of Sugar Linux and Windows XP—something skeptics have said wasn't going to happen. Soon, XOs will ship with both Sugar and XP for Boot Camp-style dual-booting options. They will never come with only XP, though the team is working on adding more of the Sugar functionality, like the mesh network and the fun sharing apps, to the Windows side. Once again, little PCs are coming to the rescue of Windows XP. More »

12:01 PM on Mon Jun 23 2008
By Wilson Rothman
10,505 views, 15 comments

Latest by glaeven: i hate to say this, but its an improvement. sugar is just awful. sorry olpc. more »

olpc

OLPC To Become Colombia's Finest Import

OLPC has agreed to supply 65 thousand XO computers to the state of Caldas, Colombia, providing an injection of technology to a rural area of the country. The first 15,000 will be distributed throughout the most remote areas of the state by the end of 2008, while the remaining 50,000 will be offered in the capital, Manizales, and other remaining areas of the state by the end of 2009. More »

8:30 AM on Thu May 29 2008
By Adrian Covert
1,429 views, 21 comments

olpc

Negroponte Moots Windows XP Version of OLPC--Is It a Case of So Long, Sugar?

The founder and chairman of OLPC has admitted that only using open-source software has not been good for the project. Just a day after the resignation of group president Walter Bender, Nicholas Negroponte admitted that the choice of the Sugar operating system has hit the XO laptop project in two places: usability; and popularity. More »

8:30 AM on Wed Apr 23 2008
By AddyDugdale
3,661 views, 21 comments

olpc

OLPC Planning and Praying for $50 Laptop

In a chat with Laptop Mag about the booming ultra-cheap, ultra-portable laptop market, blustery and beleaguered OLPC founder Nick Negroponte actually manages to keep his cool while dissing his rivals—a laudable feat—and drops a couple of interesting bits: OLPC is still on a trajectory toward a $50 laptop, and they're planning on launching dual-boot Windows XP machines worldwide. Thems some lofty goals—aside from their epic fail to hit just $100, XO's crafty designer is only trying to clear $75. Good luck, Nick. [Laptop Mag]

5:00 PM on Tue Apr 8 2008
By matt buchanan
1,523 views, 13 comments

Latest by sanjsrik: Are they planning on fixing the crappy membrane keyboards? They never bothered to set up a supply chain for repairs and there's quite a few people (myself included) who have kids who have ripped the raised membrane keyboards off more »

olpc

OLPC's Negroponte Not Exactly Looking For a Successor (Plus XO Getting Windows in 60 Days)

Reports of OLPC's Negroponte looking for a replacement to fill his CEO role were a bit unfounded, as the man himself just claimed that the organization HAS no CEO, and that whatever the replacement does, it won't be what Negroponte is doing. Negroponte says: More »

5:00 PM on Mon Mar 10 2008
By Jason Chen
2,124 views, 5 comments

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OLPC Founder Negroponte Is Getting the Hell Out of Dodge

The One Laptop Per Child project, initially famed for its lofty goals, became known for becoming one of the more impressive shitshows in tech, in part thanks to founder Nick Negroponte's own foibles. So it's probably not a bad thing for the org—as much credit as he deserves for starting it—that he's stepping off to let someone else take over. "I am not a CEO. Management, administration, and details are my weaknesses." Probably shouldn't be at the top then, bub. [BusinessWeek via FSJ]

11:20 AM on Thu Mar 6 2008
By matt buchanan
3,627 views, 24 comments

Latest by akmarksman: @Vagabum: get 'em windows xp and then they can out do the east indians in dell tech support.... LOL more »

olpc

OLPC America to Help Kids Back Home

The OLPC is all set to launch an American branch, called OLPC America, which aims to help kids from low-income families in the US. The new arm of OLPC has already acquired a director and chairman, and their head office is likely to be situated in Washington D.C. More »

4:00 PM on Sun Jan 13 2008
By Haroon Malik
2,353 views, 20 comments

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OLPC Founder Realizes Verbal Agreements Are Not Equivalent to Money

If you were wondering why you've been asked to help pick up the tab with the OLPC project, its founder offers a lesson in international business:
"We are making the XO available to U.S. and Canadian consumers as a financing scheme for the developing world, to trigger global demand and government closure," Negroponte told LAPTOP Magazine. He added, "I have, to some degree, underestimated the difference between shaking the hand of a head of state and having a check written."
[Laptop Magazine]

1:50 PM on Fri Nov 16 2007
By Matt Buchanan
3,543 views, 25 comments

Latest by n/a: 90% of the posts to this are idiotic. Negroponte said he under estimated the problems. What a role model. Much more so than many others in the "news". Plus, he is a mench for undertaking something of this scale. I gave more »

hell freezes over

Intel Joins OLPC Team

The two biggest rivals aiming to distribute laptops to the third-world shorties—Intel, develper of the Classmate PC, and One Laptop Per Child led by Nick Negroponte—have shaken hands and buried the hatchet, says the AP. Here's the skinny: More »

11:22 AM on Fri Jul 13 2007
By Wilson Rothman
2,311 views, 8 comments

Latest by skierpage: @aec007: OLPC is a learning initiative for poor (not starving) kids, not a laptop initiative. Why should it have anything to do with Windows? Intel doesn't offer any chip comparable to the AMD Geode. WTF is "ASUS more »

olpc vs classmate

Negroponte to Intel: You Suck!

Nicholas Negroponte has started a bitch-fight against Intel because, according to him, they are trying to drive him out of business by underpricing their OLPC rival, the Classmate. He says that Intel "should be ashamed of itself" arguing that by bringing a low-cost laptop to developing countries, they hurt "his mission enormously." His mission. Intel's Chairman Craig Barrett calls the notion "crazy." I'm going to go a step further and say that Negroponte's arguments are absolutely stupid. Clickity-clack on the jump to see more about the OLPC vs Classmate clash. More »

9:38 PM on Mon May 21 2007
By Addy Dugdale
6,016 views, 38 comments

Latest by Skeptical_Geezer: Why can't we buy one? At $200, I wouldn't mind entrusting a laptop to my 10-year old kid. more »

one laptop per child

OLPC: Now $175 and Windows XP Ready


Nick Negroponte, founder of the One Laptop Per Child initiative, announced that the price of the so-called "$100 laptop" would actually be $175 when manufacturer Quanta begins production this October. Earlier this year, we told you the OLPC might cost over $200, so even though this is a price hike, it's actually good news. Negroponte also announced that, in addition to the Linux-based OS we showed you earlier, OLPCs would now run Windows. More »

10:30 AM on Fri Apr 27 2007
By Wilson Rothman
6,378 views, 38 comments

laptops

Nick Negroponte Changes OLPC Name Again

Gee, would Negroponte just pick a name for the OLPC laptop and stick to it? First the $100 laptop was just called the $100 laptop, then "upgraded" to the CM1: The Children's Machine 1, then the 2B1 Children's Machine. Now? XO, which stands for nothing (besides being short for hugs and kisses). More »

4:00 PM on Tue Oct 24 2006
By Jason Chen
212 views, 11 comments

laptops

$130 One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) GUI

Here's a sneak peak at the MIT $100 $130 OLPC project PC's graphical user interface (GUI). More »
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$100 PC Now Costs $130, Due in April, 2007

Nicholas Negroponte of MIT's Media Lab showed off the latest version of his $100 OLPC (One Laptop Per Child), the Linux-based laptop that will begin shipping to developing countries starting in April, 2007. The 2-pound laptop won't cost $100, though. Its price will actually be between $130 and $140 not including shipping, but Negroponte expects that $100 price point to be reached by the end of 2008 when manufacturing has scaled up to 5 to 6 million units. More »

9:31 AM on Fri Jun 2 2006
By Charlie White
856 views, 11 comments

laptops

Buy One $100 Laptop, Give Two to Kids

PledgeBank, the site that allows its users to vow to do something and then encourages others to do the same, is where Mike Liveright set up his particular pledge: he will purchase three of the MIT Media Lab's $100 OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) laptops at $300, giving two of them away. He'll do this only if 100,000 others will, too. This way, generous donors can keep one of the laptops for themselves and send two to those who are much less fortunate, presumably children in the developing world. More »

8:41 AM on Thu May 25 2006
By Charlie White
4,084 views, 10 comments

Latest by jrghoull: i am getting fed up with all you schmucks out there that think this is a bad idea. this is a revolutionary idea that has so much potential that it is truly mind boggoling...any of u that think its a more »