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OLPC XO Laptop's Sugar OS Being Shopped to Four Other Laptop-Makers
Even though the XO Laptop's Sugar-coated OS wasn't exactly the most vaunted aspect of the attempted laptop-for-all, following Windows XP's invasion of the project, former OLPC exec Walter Bender's newly formed Sugar Labs is shopping Sugar around. They're in talks with at least four "ultra low-cost" notebook makers who would use it for kid computers. This is the second OLPC splinter faction to license tech from the OLPC project, the first being Mary Lou Jepsen's Pixel Qi, which is licensing the XO's innovative indoor/outdoor display and aiming for a $75 laptop. I'm waiting for someone to sell me that sweet XO-2 unveiled the other day. [Betanews via Electronista]
xo laptop 2.0
At OLPC's Global Country workshop today, founder Nick Negroponte unveiled the next-gen XO Laptop, and it totally blows the original away. About half the XO 1.0's size and more like a foldable book, it does away with the keyboard and trackpad to go totally touchscreen—that's right, dual touchscreens, straight out of the future, like a kid's book in Minority Report. Folded all the way out, the displays work like a single continuous one, for say, a sweet game of Pong. Like XO 1.0, the display by Pixel-Qi will look fine indoors or in bright sunlight. Unfortunately, it really is from the future: Due in 2010, they're aiming for $75 and one-watt power consumption. Update: High-res shots and full press release, and they're calling it XOXO, or XO-2.
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OLPC XO Laptop 2.0 Has Dual Touchscreens, Looks Amazing and Future-y
At OLPC's Global Country workshop today, founder Nick Negroponte unveiled the next-gen XO Laptop, and it totally blows the original away. About half the XO 1.0's size and more like a foldable book, it does away with the keyboard and trackpad to go totally touchscreen—that's right, dual touchscreens, straight out of the future, like a kid's book in Minority Report. Folded all the way out, the displays work like a single continuous one, for say, a sweet game of Pong. Like XO 1.0, the display by Pixel-Qi will look fine indoors or in bright sunlight. Unfortunately, it really is from the future: Due in 2010, they're aiming for $75 and one-watt power consumption. Update: High-res shots and full press release, and they're calling it XOXO, or XO-2.
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Microsoft Offers Mega-Discount on WinXP to Low-Cost Laptop Makers
Ultra low-cost PCs such as OLPC's XO laptop could end up bundled with copies of Windows OS after all, if Microsoft's most recent scheme to grab market share works. The company is giving computer manufacturers Windows XP Home Edition at a steep discount to put on ULPCs, in hopes of luring them away from Linux. More »
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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]
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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 »
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OLPC Shipments May Not Be as Screwed Up as Previously Thought
We have all heard about the endless problems OLPC is having with its shipments. However, an email sent to one of our own stated that the production schedule is "still on track" and that the laptop he ordered is expected to be delivered "by the middle or the end of March." This comes despite the fact that the laptop was purchased at the last possible minute. Did anyone else who ordered an XO receive a similar email recently, or is your order still in limbo?
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OLPC Woes Never End: Shoddy Record-Keeping Delaying Shipments
OLPC was supposed to be a beacon of hope and gleaming digital light for children all around the developing world. Lately, it's been more like a dirty, busted street lamp. Now it's coming out that they can't even get laptops to the people actually paying for them—particularly if they used PayPal—due to crappy record-keeping software that keeps dumping people's addresses. And that's on top of the supply problems. More »
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OLPC Is F'd: Defected XO Laptop Designer Plans New $75 Laptop
Mary Lou Jepsen, the XO laptop's designer and OLPC's CTO, split from the project a little over a week ago to "commercialize" some of the tech she developed for the project—the display in particular—through a for-profit venture, Pixel-Qi. Probable result: a new generation of OLPC competitors from commercial outfits. But it gets better! It's come out Pixel-Qi's aiming to completely undercut the OLPC with a 75 dollar laptop. More »
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OLPC Slaps Back at Intel: "You Have No Heart and Don't Care About the Children"
Last night, Intel pulled out of OLPC, citing founder Nicholas Negroponte's serious jealousy issues with other low-cost computers stealing XO's thunder in more ways than one. Today, OLPC slaps back, claws out: "We're totally better off without you since it was all for show and you never really loved us (or the kids) in the first place!" More »
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Video Unboxing and Walkthrough of the OLPC XO Laptop
This video's painful to watch at moments, because this couple is about the most indecisive pair of people on earth, like when they epically struggle to name the laptop. But you do get to see everything you get in the XO's box, like a letter from Nicholas Negroponte, presumably thanking you for your charity (to the project or to the 2nd laptop's recipient, I don't know) and a thorough, if bumbling, interface-in-motion walkthrough. More »
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Intel Classmate Reviewed (Verdict: OLPC Killer)
While we haven't seen anywhere near the kind of buzz in geek circles for Intel's Classmate, it played a prominent, crushing role in the WSJ's slaughterfest OLPC article a couple weeks ago, since it's been picked up by Libya, Nigeria and Pakistan over the XO Laptop, in large part because it runs Windows and Office and the XO Laptops don't. Yet. Wired puts their distinctly non-child-sized mitts on it and walks away pretty impressed. More »
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OLPC XO Laptop's Interface Not So Intuitive?
Another entry in the swelling mound of reports that the XO Laptop isn't so noob-friendly after all—people needing help getting 'em going doesn't spell "sweet" on the ease-of-use front. This guy saw them on 60 Minutes, thought it'd be cool for his wife and kids, but he can't get the internets working on it and is contemplating sending the second laptop to needy children too.There are other verdicts, though. Has anyone here done the G1G1 deal? What's your take on the interface? [OLPC News]
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Chubby Casually Racist Harry Potter Look-Alike Reviews OLPC XO Laptop
While American children aren't so enthralled with the XO Laptop, it quite strikes the fancy of this chubby 8-year-old British boy with a squealing, girly giggle. Not only does it all do all of the things a regular computer can do, you can "chat to other people over in Nigeria." See, his dad brought it to him "from Nigeria" and the Neighborhood app lets you see if "there are maybe a lot of Nigerian people there." But don't worry, it's not just a bunch of spammers, the OLPC's very international! Since his chat buddies "speak very bad English" our reviewer thinks "they're in the Peru." I feel the Third World catching up to us already! [BBC]
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XO Laptops Ship Today
The OLPC XO laptops that we've heard so much about finally ship today. Those generous enough to both give a laptop and get a laptop this holiday season should receive their system in plenty of time for Christmas (though Hanukkah finds itself shafted again). Formerly scheduled for a December 14 to December 24 delivery, we're not sure of their precise shipping expediency, but it looks like the OLPC factories might actually be ahead of schedule. Is anyone expecting a package and the warm karma a faceless child? [olpcnews]
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Microsoft's Special Windows XP for OLPC Runs Directly off of an SD Card
Addressing one of the major reasons OLPC's XO Laptop is being shunned by some countries—the lack of a Windows operating system—Microsoft is developing a version of Windows XP and Office that's run directly off of a 2GB SD card. (They convinced OLPC to add an SD slot to the mobo for this very project.) It'll be conducting "limited field trials" with OLPC next month, with a possible launch sometime after June. The catch? More »
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So this OLPC thing, it's not exactly everything it was supposed to be. It's being outsold by competitors and is falling far, far short of its initial goals. And now, to add insult and injury to what was previously only injury, a Nigerian company is suing the OLPC for patent infringement. That's a kick in the pants. An ironic kick in the pants.
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Nigerian Keyboard Company Suing OLPC for Patent Infringement
So this OLPC thing, it's not exactly everything it was supposed to be. It's being outsold by competitors and is falling far, far short of its initial goals. And now, to add insult and injury to what was previously only injury, a Nigerian company is suing the OLPC for patent infringement. That's a kick in the pants. An ironic kick in the pants.
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